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Switzerland, Not USA, Is The 'Most Innovative' Country In The World
2022-10-07
[ZERO] The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has released its 2022 Global Innovation Index. It evaluated innovation levels across 132 economies focusing on a long list of criteria such as human capital, institutions, technology and creative output as well as market and business sophistication, among others.

The 2022 index has found that innovation is still blossoming in some sectors despite the global economic slowdown and coronavirus pandemic, especially in industries to do with public health and the environment.

As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, Switzerland topped the rankings with a score of 64.6 out of 100, the 12th time it has been named the world leader in innovation. The United States come second while the Sweden rounds off the top three.
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  
Thank you, Wipe-O. How helpful of you. Maybe the only reason China is a member.

How China is infiltrating Switzerland.

Posted by: Dron66046   2022-10-07 23:52  

#8  Switzerland is not where the innovations occur. It's where the paperwork is filed.

See: Delaware corporation.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-10-07 14:11  

#7  Switzerland, not Israel? What about India?
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-10-07 14:09  

#6  The Dutch should be #1 or #2. Look at ASML the one company actually making Moore's Law happen with innovation after innovation.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-10-07 14:02  

#5  #2 Financial engineering is engineering too.
Posted by: Matt   2022-10-07 13:57  

#4  Bet they get to heat their houses this Winter without threat of jail.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-10-07 12:56  

#3  [Wiki]The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO; French: Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI)) is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN)...Headquarters Geneva, Switzerland...

So an organ of the UN (#1) based in (#2) Switzerland in the middle of the EU (#3) in a "totally independent and unbiased survey" announces that yet another EU nation is the pinnacle of human progress ...unexpectedly. Additionally in the country they have their headquarters, how absolutely precious.
Posted by: magpie   2022-10-07 11:24  

#2  Credit Suisse sure seems to have some innovative accounting practices
Posted by: Slenter Panda4300   2022-10-07 07:03  

#1  Intellectual Property is complete bullshit and bastards like WIPO are a plague on us dirt people. The time is long past when copying meant writers of sheet music didn't get paid. Now it's megabillion dollar corporations getting Youtubers banned for including a fair use clip from Lion King or a Nelly song.
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811   2022-10-07 05:56  

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