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How much countries spend in R&D
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Re: How much countries spend in R&D
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
A big part of its success was the collapse of USSR. So luck and ability to self-reflect and realize on their fortunes and execute on that lucky break... In the 90's they had a population of 4mil and something 300k Soviet immigrants were arriving every year. A large proportion of them was highly educated people. And those people who sent rockets to space were cleaning the streets... So what they did right was just tak…
Wow I had no clue about this. Any interesting books/articles that you can recommend on this topic?
I think this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start-up_Nation mentions it, but I don't know any source that writes in details about it.
All from my memory of seeing relatives and friends that worked for Soviet research institutes --> sweeping streets in the desert sun at +40 Celsius ---> working on interesting hardware/software projects. It's amazing how people can thrive and pull out of the lows if you give them a hand. Completely the opposite happened to people in Russia, these research institutes were shut down and people just succumbed to alcoholism. Decades of knowledge were lost or just transferred to the US defense industry.
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#63I was excited to see such a fresh UI from the UNESCO site when the page first loaded, then as I started reading I realized the right half of every sentence is cut off in Safari on iPhone 6/7/8.
May I suggest you get access to a monitor?
In all seriousness, data visualization requires all the space it can get. I agree the graphics are not that fancy, but displaying them on mobile would be rather uninteresting as everything would be tiny.
Hence the minimal effort put on responsiveness.
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#64I am from a country in the bottom left 1/16th of the graph and can confirm. The whole economy is about subcontracting and sucking in money from various EU grants, any offices of global businesses are sad outsourcing and offshoring centers.
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#65I really admire Israel on the intellectual front. This is a nation that starts using an obscure liturgical language (Hebrew) at the turn of the 19th century, and today has Silicon Wadi which is second only to SV, the highest proportion of PhDs in the population, and a couple Nobels, Fields, Turing and Wolf prizes! I wonder if there are some aspects of Jewish culture than can be incorporated the world over. India on t…
A big part of its success was the collapse of USSR. So luck and ability to self-reflect and realize on their fortunes and execute on that lucky break... In the 90's they had a population of 4mil and something 300k Soviet immigrants were arriving every year. A large proportion of them was highly educated people. And those people who sent rockets to space were cleaning the streets... So what they did right was just tak…
Yes, I think a lot of thier curreny success comes from "exchange" with larger countries and a natural incentive to develop e.g. military technology. I guess it is similar to places like Taiwan.
If you removed all the US companies, restricted immigration and didn't allow people to go abroad to study it isn't clear how well they would do. From what I hear it is no dream to be young in Israel today. Also there seems to be a surprising amount of shady things coming out of Israel. Anything from spam and exploits to binary options and outright fraud. Which would suggest that people don't have better opportunities.
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#66Wouldn’t it have been a more helpful/useful comparison to show R&D as a % of GDP alongside % of PPP-adjusted GDP? Total R&D spend in PPP$ seems like a not-so-useful comparison since it's still biased by size of an economy, whereas % of total GDP is trying to normalize for that (albeit not perfectly).
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#67This website sucks beyond amazing belief. I couldn't take it and left.
So long for constructive comments...
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#68India's is a sad state. It is partly to do with the fact that the nation maintains (rather proudly IMO) the colonial structure of being a mere 'training ground' for Engineers and Scientists before they move to the US/UK/rem. Anglo-Saxon nations. K Vijayaraghavan, the DBT secretary, and a NAS fellow, has written a piece on the matter. https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/india-must-shed-inte...
Even with that, India has done amazingly well in the space sector with the successes of PSLV in the 20th century and the recent Mars mission in the recent past.
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#69Anyone know how much Taiwan spends on R&D? My dated recollection was quite high (10%?)
Re: How much countries spend in R&D
#70A large proportion of the so-called public R&D spending is actually backdoor subsidies to company's normal production activities. Here in the EU there has been a relentless lobbying push by industry to redefine 'Research' to include the higher 'Technology Readiness Levels' [1]. Traditionally 'Research' was deemed to be up to TRL-3, and 'Development' up to TRL-5. The distinctions are important as there are far stricte…
How about stopping subsidies to companies altogether? Its not a necessary market mechanism.
Governments are in a competitive market for how business friendly they are. This creates pressure to create beneficial tax and subsidy regimes or risk losing businesses. If a government plays it too strict, multinationals will minimize their operations and local businesses won't be able to compete internationally.
The way I see it, it's really the market at work, doing exactly what markets do. Negotiating a price (tax cuts and subdidies) in exchange for a good or service (business presence hiring staff and causing economic activity).