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The 30 Most Innovation-Friendly Countries

By Bruce Einhorn

Which countries provide the most innovation-friendly climates for companies? That's the question the Boston Consulting Group, working with the National Association of Manufacturers' Manufacturing Institute, set out to answer in its recent survey. BCG consultants, led by James P. Andrew, looked at both "inputs"government policies supporting education, workforce quality, infrastructure, and tradeand "performance"R&D results, business performance, employment growth, and other impacts of innovation.

At a time when countries around the world are struggling because of the global recession, it's all the more important for them to make themselves more attractive to potential investment from multinationals looking for environments that are innovation-friendly, says Andrew. "Countries aren't innovative, companies are," he says. "The choices that countries make can have a profound impact on the ability of companies to be innovative, to attract and retain people and other inputs that go into making innovation successful."

So which countries have the right mix of pro-innovation policies and superior results? Despite the recessionand talk of decline in American manufacturingthe U.S. does well, ranking in the top 10. It's not No. 1, though. To learn more about the 30 countries on BCG's list, and the grades that BCG's consultants gave them for overall ranking as well as inputs and performance, read on.


In order

1. Singapore
2. South Korea
3. Switzerland
4. Iceland
5. Ireland
6. Hong Kong (SAR)
7. Finland
8. United States
9. Japan
10. Sweden
11. Denmark
12. Netherlands
13. Luxemborg
14. Canada
15. Britain
16. Israel
17. Austria
18. Norway
19. Germany
20. France
21. Malaysia
22. Australia
23. Estonia
24. Spain
25. Belgium
26. New Zealand
27. China
28. Cyprus
29. Portugal
30. Qatar

Sounds about right.

Unsurprisingly dominated by Asia and the West.

Siege of Tobruk - One German POW said: "I cannot understand you Australians. In Poland, France, and Belgium, once the tanks got through the soldiers took it for granted that they were beaten. But you are like demons. The tanks break through and your infantry still keep fighting." Rommel wrote of seeing "a batch of some fifty or sixty Australian prisoners ... marched off close behind usimmensely big and powerful men, who without question represented an elite formation of the British Empire, a fact that was also evident in battle."


"As a Internet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."

LOL yeah sounds right!

its mostly a list of how much aligned to western paedophile practices worlds countries are haha

except qatar and malaysia which both are also very pro western even allowing lewdity of westrns whroes females and porno and qatar even allowing recogniziging zioninists beggar states

singaypore world most innovation friendly nation, funny they are all led by leaders of dictotarial type and having no free press and media and not even democracy

wonder where western fags like the one posting above my post are when singayporean case is beings brought to the fore?

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I am not hating christians

Suspect that this is similar to the UN best place in world to live, where the difference between 1 and 10 (or maybe even 30) is really dependent on one or two highly subjective ratings. Interesting that Qatar would make it, but not UAE.

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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
George Bernard Shaw

^its prolly dependsing on beings who dine and 'gift' the editors most and sends on cruise vacations to dubai or bahamas etc.



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I am old Christiankiller
Sorry for offensive to our good religion christian brothers
I am not hating christians

Please, it's just East Asia, not Asia as a whole.....

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^Qatar, Malaysia, Singaypore, Zooinists etc
(if you expandings, can also include oz or even kiwi sheepshag8ers in asia)

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I am old Christiankiller
Sorry for offensive to our good religion christian brothers
I am not hating christians