WSJ: U.S. Leads the Way in Innovation
January 16th, 2007 by WaS
Good news for us! From today’s WSJ:
U.S. Leads the Way in Innovation
Among Businesses, Study Finds
By ROBERT GUY MATTHEWS
A ranking by a prominent European business school found the U.S. by far the world’s most innovative nation.
Insead, a business school based near Paris with campuses there and in Singapore, said the U.S. is the top country in generating new ideas, adapting them quickly and profiting from them. Germany was a distant second.
“The U.S. leads the second most innovative nation by almost a full point, putting it in a league of its own as far as global innovation is concerned,” the Insead report said. The United Arab Emirates, ranked 14th, was the only country in the top 15 that wasn’t European, Asian or North American.
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http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB116891399240977268.html
This report is written by my school (INSEAD in France) but I had not heard about it until I read it here! Thanks!