While I asked him some lame questions about outsourcing innovation, his eyes turned away from mine and focused on the booth 92Q had set up on the other side of the room.

FORBES: Commandeering the Decks: Baltimore's Digital Harbor Tech Center

The grounding of the 787 fleet illustrates not the flaws in Boeing's industrial culture -- a rush to bring the airliner to market, a degree of over-innovation or a desire to please shareholders by outsourcing too much design and production -- but the rigor of a regulatory regime with a zero tolerance of any mote of imperfection.

CNN: How Boeing can bounce back from Dreamliner problems

Instead of focusing on the negatives around outsourcing, we should harness our educational system and government policies toward encouraging innovation and developing new markets.

FORBES: Jim Miller

With this mentality, the outsourcing market will continue to expand as corporations are required to source materials, talent and innovation from anywhere in the world in order to compete on a global scale.

FORBES: 01.23.08, 6:00 PM ET