Even more incredulous, is this is a premeir organization! naturally I find such debate to be so silly because it is quite obvious quality will trump quantity any time of the day, especially in technology.
However, admittedly there are situations where quantity is more important and one of the situation warranting such a model would be when an organization is trying to create and incentivize their r n d department.
I had gone through this same exercise when I was part of an organization bringing r n d into a traditionally manufacturing complex. Patents were alien to this people, and we had drawn people from manufacturing to man the development teams, with a sprinkling of new graduates like myself. The boss was an old hand in r n d, and had crafted a scheme to encourage disclosures of potential patents by just putting forth a 4 slide ppt.
his scheme was idiot-proof:
Slide 1: introduction and problem statement
Slide 2: your solution
Slide 3: more details of your solution
Slide 4: cost savings as a result of adopting this thingamajig
Not perfect, but it got the ball rolling.
But past the initial 2 years, the internal patenting committee put up additional barriers and lifted the hurdle higher such that we introduced more quality into the pipeline.
Now this was for an organization that at best had basic engineering degree holders with a few graduate degrees and post-grads.
How about for an organization where you had tons of post-grads? Shouldn't this NOT even be a question? (re: quality vs quantity). If quantity ruled the day, would be throwing hard earned money after useless technology patents, or can we afford to play the numbers' game and let fate decide?
In any situation, I'd advocate quality and especially in this tough climate, we need to make tougher decisions instead of molly-collding the egos of these people.
Sound-off : what do you think?
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