Who could resist reading a blog post titled, “How Thomas Edison, Mark Zuckerberg and Iron Man are holding back American innovation”? Writing for the Washington Post’s Wonkblog, Suzy Khimm reports on a conference held by the New America Foundation on the grand topic of “How to Save America’s Knowledge Enterprise.”

So how are those three very different heroes (one of whom, of course, is fictional) stifling the invention that our economy could use so desperately right now?

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