Does innovation work this way?

We may be ready to find out.  It was my understanding that the creative genius was a solitary affair, not a collective one.   That's why just throwing a lot of money around won't necessarily give you the results you seek. Not saying that it can't happen.  Just saying that the creative impulse can't be willed into existence.  I think our problems in this country are not with the lack of good ideas, but with the lack of vision to implement them.  If it is the destiny of China to out pace the rest of the world in technological virtuosity, it may be well to observe that the greatest strokes of genius came from individuals.  If they are to achieve that, or for that matter, anyone is to achieve that, the creative genius must be unleashed.  This does not appear to be the case with these propositions.