Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit blogger and author of An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths: "I'd try to eliminate the hassles involved in doing new stuff. That includes streamlining the patent process and drastically narrowing patent protection—the current system favors big enterprises that use patents as bargaining chips, not innovation. I'd decouple healthcare from employment...so that people don't stay in jobs they don't like just for healthcare."
Guy Kawasaki, Apple Computer legend, venture capitalist: "Provide the funding and freedom for local universities to create the best engineering schools possible.... Enable foreigners to study and work here with a flexible and fast visa program.... Do not create special tax incentives unless you want special interests to exploit them. [Do not] create a [government] venture capital fund, because capital isn't the issue; good ideas are, which is why we need engineering schools and foreigners. [Do not] appoint an innovation czar who might create an empire and bureaucracy. Who says we need a czar?"
