De bekende business-school INSEAD publiceert voor de vijfde
maal haar analyse van het innovatiesucces van naties. "The
five Nordic countries Sweden (2nd), Finland (5th), Denmark (6th),
Iceland (11th), and Norway (18th) have very strong performances
globally as well as regionally. Within the European Union (EU) the
Netherlands and the UK are in the top 10."
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"The Netherlands comes in 3rd on the Output Sub-Index, a
performance driven by marks within the top 10 in international
Patent Cooperation Treaty applications by residents, scientific and
technical journal articles, total computer software spending,
royalty and license fees' receipts, daily newspapers' circulation,
and creative services exports. This excellent result allows it to
be ranked 9th in the overall GII, despite its 16th place on the
Input side."
INSEAD noteert dat de wereldranglijst gedomineerd wordt door
kleinere, noordelijke Europese landen. En ook vanuit Azië zijn het
kleine hotspots als Singapore en Hong Kong die er uit schieten. Een
opmerkelijk punt is bovendien dat ons land bij de doelmatigheid van
innovatie hoog scoort, nest als enkele veel grote landen: "Like the
Netherlands, Germany, and the US, the Republic of Korea is among
the most efficient innovators among high-income countries."
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The top 10 countries in the GII 2001 edition are dominated by
Europe, with six countries, and includes two Asian economies and
two North American countries: Switzerland, Sweden, Singapore, Hong
Kong, Finland, Denmark, the United States of America (US), Canada,
the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom (UK). Leaders in their
respective regions are Switzerland (1st), Singapore (3rd), the US
(7th), Israel (14th), Chile (38th), Mauritius (53rd), and India
(62nd).
Switzerland comes in at top place in the overall GII 2011
rankings (up from position 4th last year) on the basis of its
strong position in both the Input and Output Sub- Indices (3rd and
2nd, respectively). Although the country does not top any
individual pillar, it places within the top 5 in three Input
pillars (Institutions, Market and Business sophistication) and both
Output pillars (Scientific outputs and Creative outputs).
The runner-up, Sweden, is the only country in the top 10 on all
four indices. A knowledge-based economy, this outstanding
performance is driven by 1st place on Scientific outputs. Singapore
ranked 3rd on the GII, shows its strongest performance in the Input
Sub-Index, coming in at 1st place on the basis of top 10 positions
on all 5 pillars. However, Singapore's Innovation Efficiency Index
ranking is low (37th among high-income countries, 94th in the
general rankings); this shows up in its relative weak performance
in the Output Sub-Index, where it is ranked 17th overall.
By income group, from high- to low-income countries, the leaders
are Switzerland (1st), Malaysia (31st), China (29th), and Ghana
(70th). China, at position 29, is the only developing country to be
among the top 30; Malaysia, Chile, Moldova, and Lithuania make it
to the top 40.
The five Nordic countries Sweden (2nd), Finland (5th), Denmark
(6th), Iceland (11th), and Norway (18th) have very strong
performances globally as well as regionally. Within the European
Union (EU), among the 15 original EU countries (EU15), the
Netherlands and the UK are in the top 10, followed by Germany
(12th), Ireland (13th), Luxembourg (17th), Austria (19th), and
France (22nd).
The rest of the EU15 countries-Belgium (24th) and the four
Mediterranean countries, Spain (32nd), Portugal (33rd), Italy
(35th), and Greece (63rd)-have lost key positions to some of the 12
countries that recently acceded to the EU