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The index adopts a broad definition of innovation. It includes “outputs”, such as patents, scientific publications and high-tech exports, as well as “inputs”, such as spending on research and development (R&D), the number of engineering graduates, and venture-capital deals. The index takes into account a country’s adoption and use of technology, as well as its production of it. Countries that import a lot of high-tech products and spend liberally on intellectual property from abroad score better on the index. Some of the indicators are unconventional, including the number of feature films a country makes and the amount of changes it makes to collaborative software projects on GitHub, a popular platform for sharing data and code.

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7 comments

  2. So a hypothetical country with low scientific integrity publishing a multitude of low- value scientific papers and patents funded massively by the government would score high on the innovation index?

  3. In the second image, every region is represented by its top 3 countries, except for North America, seemingly for the purpose of excluding Mexico

    EDIT: I now see it’s listed in Latin America

  4. Circles of different sizes are a poor way to represent data. You can either make them scale by diameter, circumference, or area, and whichever one you pick is going to make the data appear different than it actually is.

  6. I don’t believe that China is the innovation leader. Maybe if you count their innovation of copying someone else.

  7. “Innovation” is my favourite bit of corp-speak.

    I innovated a right stinker that wouldnt flush last night. Does that make me a disruptor or an innovator in the toilet space?

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