 The myth that we're talking about is the myth of the individual scientists working in their garage or on a workbench alone And they've been doing that for years and all the great ideas have come from those sorts of individuals And it's true that a lot of the best ideas come from individuals who are deep thinkers who are working in somewhat isolation they get to read papers as as Albert Einstein said we do stand on the shoulders of giants and many of Those giants are previous scientists To make something go from the laboratory To a to a real industry or real innovation takes a large number of different types of people very interdisciplinary teams from Physicist and chemists to the engineers who know how to take a material and for example make it into a battery That's got the kind of energy densities that make an automobile go 400 miles as opposed to 40 miles those kinds of Steps from the laboratory where you have a single material made in a laboratory all the way to a battery that works And then to something that can scale to a million of these things can't be done by an individual inventor and even Edison Even Edison is the great example of the guy who invented the light bulb in the phonograph Though the myth is that he worked alone in his laboratory in reality Of course he worked in a substantial lab that he ran in New Jersey in Menlo Park Policy makers need to focus on the strategy behind what the US wants to do so Right now the US is not very strong on policy behind energy for example So if you look I'll give the energy as the example in energy We have an ecosystem, which is not a complete ecosystem We have it's driven by utilities and by big oil companies and that's great because they have their need to make a profit But there isn't a strategic focus for building up the energy economy So we can try to fund it from a research point of view, but actually from a technology point of view I think the problems aren't so bad as they are from the policy point of view I think in my opinion policy makers really have to focus on on a national policy in terms of what outcomes We want versus just focusing on on letting all players play It's on an international level if you look at China They're actually being quite strategic in where they're placing their investments even on the science side or take a small Country even like Taiwan who dominates now in the display industry They are Korea is now competing, but they actually have done that by being very strategic about their investment in research Their investment and thoughts about policy exactly how to make it more easy for those those industries to grow and thrive There is a responsibility to discuss the basic infrastructure in this country Right do does US want to be leading in science and technology or not? And so we have to address that question I assume that the president and his and and Mitt Romney will be able to we'll be discussing how they're going to stimulate The very basic underpinning of what this country is about right so there's innovation. There's science But also there's there's the economy and how those things how Educating people how innovation of those educated people ends up in the economy. Yes, that will be discussed I'm sure present current president president Obama clearly has talked about the the energy economy which you know Which needs better definition, but presumably will be discussed But I think either candidate will be discussing how you create jobs And so if you look at jobs and you go back 40 years and ask where the jobs of the day came from Whether you ask it's whether it's Google or whether it's you look Packard those jobs came from innovation that happened deep inside of Universities and laboratories over 30 or 40 years ago, so they're forced to talk about it at some levels How are you going to create the jobs that you'd like to create?