Oh, and to put that $2.35Bn into perspective, Union Carbide paid out $450M for, umm, killing 20,000 people at Bhopal
First of all, let's not pretend like all American's are happy with Union Carbide's "punishment" for that incident.
Second, BP isn't paying for deaths. They must pay for the monumental cleanup and economic damages resulting from the environmental disaster they caused. It's expensive.
According to the article, Innocentive has a global network of more than 200,000 engineers, scientists, inventors, and business people who are experts in physics, chemistry, math, life sciences, computer science, and many other fields.. I wouldn't be so fast to discount the worth of their ideas. It's that kind of arrogance that got them in trouble in the first place.
According to Innocentive, perhaps. But my point stands: how many of these solutions were actually actionable? And even if all thousand of them are - the engineers qualified to evaluate them are all busy working on the problem themselves!
This just looks like some free publicity for Innocentive. Maybe they're the arrogant ones?
First of all, let's not pretend like all American's are happy with Union Carbide's "punishment" for that incident.
Second, BP isn't paying for deaths. They must pay for the monumental cleanup and economic damages resulting from the environmental disaster they caused. It's expensive.
According to the article, Innocentive has a global network of more than 200,000 engineers, scientists, inventors, and business people who are experts in physics, chemistry, math, life sciences, computer science, and many other fields.. I wouldn't be so fast to discount the worth of their ideas. It's that kind of arrogance that got them in trouble in the first place.