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Ridley: Nations shouldn't worry about IP theft if they stay smarter
“My view on the whole is that you shouldn't worry about it. You should, if necessary, sell the stuff to them, because if you can keep ahead, if you can Use your advantage to be smarter. There's no reason you can't just maintain your advantage indefinitely. You …”
Ridley: America's tolerance of failure gave it an edge over Europe
“One of the great things that America brought to the world of innovation, in my view, is a relative tolerance of failure. Compared with Most European countries. The fact that you've started a business and it went wrong was actually quite often a good thing in t…”