The World’s Most Innovative Economies
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The World’s Most Innovative Economies
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#2Could the ranking of a country like Switzerland be heavily impacted by Pharmaceutical companies registered there and filling patents there?
How many of those innovations are actually tangible in each of those countries and how many are just technicalities?
Not to discredit the ranking, I'm actually curious about the balance.
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#3This makes 0 sense to my heavily biased brain.
As a Swede that is keeping a close eye on the domestic market, I can't find that many "innovations" taking place in most commercial sectors. R&D means quack-all if you cant translate that research into good and services that the citizens of said country can take advantage of.
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#4Interesting, the global competitiveness report of the WEF lists South Korea as rank 20 for innovation.
http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GCR2016-2017/05FullReport/TheGl... [PDF] page 50
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#5This makes 0 sense to my heavily biased brain. As a Swede that is keeping a close eye on the domestic market, I can't find that many "innovations" taking place in most commercial sectors. R&D means quack-all if you cant translate that research into good and services that the citizens of said country can take advantage of.
Please note that you seeing the usefulness and it not being useful are two different things.
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#6Why to i get the impression that this has less to do with out and out innovation and more to do with the startup circus?
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#7> South Korea remained the big winner, topping the international charts in R&D intensity, value-added manufacturing and patent activity and with top-five rankings in high-tech density, higher education and researcher concentration
None of these are really all that relevant to true innovation. As a European, it's clear to me that no country comes even close to the US in terms of innovation. Almost all really new technologies come out of the US.
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#8> South Korea remained the big winner, topping the international charts in R&D intensity, value-added manufacturing and patent activity and with top-five rankings in high-tech density, higher education and researcher concentration None of these are really all that relevant to true innovation. As a European, it's clear to me that no country comes even close to the US in terms of innovation. Almost all really new techn…
I think the key words are "density" and "concentration".
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#9And as happens all too often with these lists, they left out one of the top economies and one that would have made its top bracket—Taiwan.
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#10Density in a country-wide scale means little in terms of technology. LIke how much more farmland and wildlife does USA have over Korea? Quite a huge amount. The comparison should really come at a similar scale. SF vs Seoul would be a better comparison.