The Global Innovation Index (Wikipedia) is a global index measuring the level of innovation of a country, produced jointly by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), and The Manufacturing Institute (MI), the NAM's nonpartisan research affiliate. NAM describes it as the "largest and most comprehensive global index of its kind".[1]
The International Innovation Index is part of a large research study that looked at both the business outcomes of innovation and government's ability to encourage and support innovation through public policy. The study comprised a survey of more than 1,000 senior executives from NAM member companies across all industries; in-depth interviews with 30 of the executives; and a comparison of the "innovation friendliness" of 110 countries and all 50 U.S. states. The findings are published in the report, "The Innovation Imperative in Manufacturing: How the United States Can Restore Its Edge.
The report discusses not only country performance but also what companies are doing and should be doing to spur innovation. It looks at new policy indicators for innovation, including tax incentives and policies for immigration, education and intellectual property.
The Global Innovation Index, which is a global index measuring the level of innovation of a country as it is stated in the article, will be defined by ability of country and its industries to innovate in the cutting edge fields of quantum nanoelectronics, nanotechnologies, quantum physics and chemistry. For example:
www.isec09.org/Technical_Program.pdf .
However, the fact is that a big number of researchers and executives, who will have the skills and knowledge to innovate in these fields, are no longer educated in the USA! The US universities educate the students to evaluate the existing technologies and businesses, rather than to innovate by creation of new technologies and businesses. For example:
http://icec-icmc-seoul.org/index/step3.asp?code=WE-C2-A&paper_no=WE-C2-A04
http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:I-M2Y3yqw6cJ:icec-icmc-seoul.org/index/step3.asp%3Fcode%3DWE-C2-A%26paper_no%3DWE-C2-A04+Ledenyov+QRNG_MFQ&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk .
Therefore, we have to expect that countries like the Ukraine, Australia, People Republic of China, Japan, South Korea will be on the top of the Global Innovation Index rather than the USA or Canada in the future.
Posted by: Viktor O. Ledenyov, Ukarine | Friday, 11 September 2009 at 06:46 PM