GWD8 7

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The system of patent-granting, which confers temporary monopolies for the exploitation of new technologies, was originally established as an incentive to the pursuit of risky new ideas. Yet studies of the most patent-conscious business of all—the semiconductor industry—suggest that firms do not necessarily become more innovative as they increase their patenting activity. Ziedonis and Hall, for example, found that investment in research and development (a reasonable proxy for innovation) did not substantially increase between 1982 and 1992, the industry’s most feverish period of patenting. Instead, semiconductor firms simply squeezed more patents out of existing research and development expenditures. Moreover, Ziedonis and Hall found that as patenting activity at semiconductor firms increased in the 1980’s, the consensus among industry employees was that the average quality of their firms’ patents declined. Though patent quality is a difficult notion to measure, the number of times a patent is cited in the technical literature is a reasonable yardstick, and citations per semiconductor patent did decline during the 1980’s. This decline in quality may be related to changes in the way semiconductor firms managed their patenting process: rather than patenting to win exclusive rights to a valuable new technology, patents were filed more for strategic purposes, to be used as bargaining chips to ward off infringement suites or as a means to block competitors’ products.

GWD-8-Q7 :

The passage is primarily concerned with discussing

A.      a study suggesting that the semiconductor industry’s approach to patenting during the period from 1982 to 1992 yielded unanticipated results

B.       a study of the semiconductor industry during the period from 1982 to 1992 that advocates certain changes in the industry’s management of the patenting process

C.      the connection between patenting and innovation in the semiconductor industry during the period from 1982 to 1992

D.      reasons that investment
in research and development in the semiconductor industry did not increase significantly during the period from 1982 to 1992

E.       certain factors that made the period from 1982 to 1992 a time of intense patenting activity in the semiconductor industry

答案是A，但想问问排除C的原因是不是C没有A那么准确，C太宽泛？文章中有阴影部分是不是A的依据？

coffee0921

是根据你画的判断出来a选项的，
a比c更准确
c选项不是宽泛是局限
这么说吧，文章讲的前半部分，是你说的connectiion
但是你仔细的看后面，就会发现，讲了质量下降，衡量质量的标准，已经剖析原因
都是一项研究的内容与你的connectiion，已经脱离了关系了~

Roro666

我怎么觉得还是该选C啊，

开头几句的主旨就是c。

然后举了semiconductor展开，发现投入没有增加，作为第一层意思。

然后， Moreover, Ziedonis and Hall found that.....说质量也下降了，作为第二层意思。然后扯了点别的，关于证明质量的确下降是如何衡量的。最后回到第二层意思分析质量下降是由于changes in the industry’s management of the patenting process。

纵观全文，主旨还是C。

我就是这么理解的，郁闷，有没有NN指点一下。

appleontree

Official Answer是C，Prep上的题目。。。GWD的答案错了

lovesiqi4665

到底是c还是a,啊？

samuelxie

我也觉得选C。。。。