The average age of innovator is found to be 39! That sounds encouraging if you have spent your first 30 years to educate yourself to innovate afterward.
http://www.technologyreview.com/business/39591/
While I strongly agree that most college drop-outs young software CEOs have far less knowledge in science and complex problems than elders (who have spent years in research labs) do, I believe senior researchers can hardly innovate if they did not recruit fresh-minded young graduate students. While we need time to accumulate knowledge and become smarter by our failures to be able to solve complex problems in biomedical technologies, we don't have to get "aged". Perhaps our next innovation should be to develop technologies to keep our mind and body in its most productive state: a young one.
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