Every now and then we see or read about gigantic scientific achievements made by Saudi male and female citizens who studied in the Kingdom and abroad. The media focuses on the significance of the achievements and gives it too much coverage but then stops reporting any developments regarding the achievements. Consequently, the reader or watcher forgets about the invention and the inventor. There are dozens of people whose research papers made it to top universities around the world and in some cases came top of all other research papers. Overseas universities realize the importance of scientific research for the future of nations. They know that such research can change the world in a short period of time. While a lot of research papers done by Saudi students have won global attention and praise, we don't hear or know anything here about those papers although we have centers for the talented, which support inventions and inventors. It seems that such support does not continue for a long time. Another problem is that talented students here get a lot of courage and support from talent centers. This is all they get. The centers don't help the students in advertising and marketing their inventions to factories or companies which might decide that their invention is worth more support because it could help increase production levels of a factory or company. Strangely enough, if the centers provide financial support for an invention, usually, such support does not last long for fear that the invention might not be successful in the end. Our society does not have Saudi sponsors who are willing to support national talents. Most inventions vanish because they do not have sufficient support. Most inventors get frustrated and regret the efforts they spent on their work, which they had to forgo because of lack of financial support. We hope that our inventors and innovators, who have proved themselves in global invention and creativity contests around the world, get proper and sufficient support. Those inventors deserve it. Hussein Muhammad, who has recently participated in the International Taipei Exhibition, received a gold medal for inventing a clamp for plastic pipes. Muhammad is not the first nor last inventor. What is important here is what will happen to his invention. Will someone invest in it or will it face the same fate like other inventions, which went to waste?
