LAS VEGAS \u2014 Harrison Yu sees lots of things wrong with how big business-and the U.S. government, support incremental innovation, but not breakthrough inventions.<\/p>\n
Yu, speaking at Antec 2014, said the U.S. economy and the fledgling biopolymer industry has reached a roadblock. He advocated \u201cdirect funding\u201d and research-and-development efforts for biopolymers \u2014 meaning funds for biopolymer specialists like his Bondable Biopolymers LLC, instead of \u201cindirect\u201d efforts through big resin and chemical companies that have a vested interest in fossil fuels.<\/p>\n
The result, Yu said: \u201cbiopolymers have less than 1 percent\u201d of the materials market, and remain marginalized.<\/p>\n
Yu, the CEO of Bondable Biopolymers, has a reputation of something of a technical-conference gadfly, challenging speakers and calling out technologies he thinks have no chance. He read his April 29 technical paper, titled \u201cBioplastics Impasse: Invent or Innovate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yu read straight off his PowerPoint slides, which were all text. His wide-ranging talk swung through big complex topics like innovation, government and terms like \u201cscapegoating\u201d and \u201cbully dominated\u201d \u2014 of resources for independent thinkers.<\/p>\n
Yu said U.S. industrial innovation has become timid. \u201cVast teams innovate prior art rather than make breakthroughs,\u201d he said. This has weakened the U.S. economy and forces some American inventors to take their developments to Asia and other countries, said Yu, who is a native of China. His company is based in Midlothian, Va.<\/p>\n
He called on the U.S. government to allocate \u201cmassive resources\u201d for big technological breakthroughs.<\/p>\n
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