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Re:The U.S. drops out of the top 10 in innovation ranking by muninn_ on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @03:18PM (#16217237)
Sorry but not buying it. The selection of even 7 categories, let alone suggesting that such categories should be equally weighted is unreliable at best. The nations self-reporting the data is completely irrelevant and, again, at best unreliable.

Now, maybe the US isn't as innovative as Sweden is. Ok. What exactly does that mean? Why do I care if the percentage of graduate educated people is higher? How does that actually affect innovation? Are those people releasing new, globally-changing products and services? What are some examples?

What does it mean if Samsung has more US patents than any other company besides IBM? Is IBM more innovative than Google?

It's fun and popular to bash the U.S. (has been for some time) but I really don't see much meaning behind these rankings. It's not an in-depth study. Amazon has more criteria for picking a HQ. Do you really think Bloomberg can look at these '7 criteria' and come up with a meaningful estimation? No.

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Re:The U.S. drops out of the top 10 in innovation ranking by watwut on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @04:16PM (#16217785)
> Now, maybe the US isn't as innovative as Sweden is. Ok. What exactly does that mean?

It means exactly the same thing it meant when US was among top. There were people who were interested in it and sometimes happy about it. Those very same people are still interested, but this time wonder whether it means something is changing for worst.

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Re:The U.S. drops out of the top 10 in innovation ranking by muninn_ on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @08:00PM (#16219441)
So it was meaningless still. There’s nothing to be interest about here unless unfounded clickbait is a hobby.
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