Do meetings foster entrepreneurship?

Those who recall President Obama's "state of the union" speech know that Obama never mentioned patents or the Patent Office. However, the speech contained the following sentence:

We're working with Muslim communities around the world to promote science and education and innovation.

From Breitbart on 5 March 2010: The White House on Friday announced a "summit on entrepreneurship" to build economic ties with the Islamic world, part of President Barack Obama's outreach to Muslims.

Academics well know it is easier to hold a meeting on a topic than to actually fix something. Here, it is easier to talk about entrepreneurship than to fix the funding problem at the USPTO caused by fee diversion.

See prior IPBiz post:

http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2010/01/obama-mentions-innovation-in-union.html