Karen Challinor

UK

staring at clouds

Yep, innovation in the uk 101.

Basically someone, some group or some company develop a process or a thing, I'll call it an item, that proves useful and makes money.

Government notices this, toddles over and quickly imposes legislation that basically says this item will do what it does already with a few bells and whistles in the text for future improvements.

This legislation will be deeply flawed as the people drafting it will not understand the item or its implications but they will need to get something in place for the next step.

The next step will be to impose a level of bureaucracy to enforce the legislation, which incidentally siphons off around 30 per cent of the profit as a running cost, and further slows down the future development of the item by restricting its application and stifling future developments that were not in the original legislation.