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Patents c2003
According to a 2003 MIT study of the number of U.S. patents awarded per 1 million
people for countries of the world, the U.S.A. comes in at first place. Nearly half
of patents are awarded to foreign companies. Finland, home of Nokia, Flextronics
and ABB, takes second place. Number 3 is the U.K., 4th is Japan, then Germany, Singapore,
Sweden, Denmark and then Switzerland. France comes in at #10. Canada rates 12th,
Israel is 14th, and S. Korea is 20th. China currently sits at #40, but is moving
up quickly. Russia rates #43, and Mexico sits at #51. The
study also
indicates country status in terms of population proportion of engineers & scientists,
innovation policy, number and size of technology hotspots, GDP per capita, business
competitiveness, etc. North Korea, Iran and Saudi Arabia, do not even rate
- go figure.
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