Re:Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on inn...
by YeGoblynQueenne on Sunday September 13, 2020 @06:52AM
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I don't know how to judge general innovation but it should be noted that in AI at least, Europe has been the major contributing region since 1990. See the AI index report 2019:
Sorry I can't link directly to the plot. Go to page 16 in the pdf, a section titled "Published papers: AI Papers by Region".
In short, Europe has been the region with the most output in AI research in the last 30 years with US second and China initially at third place, but overtaking the US around 2006 ish and finally Europe in 2018.
https://hai.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/ai_index_2019_r...
Sorry I can't link directly to the plot. Go to page 16 in the pdf, a section titled "Published papers: AI Papers by Region".
In short, Europe has been the region with the most output in AI research in the last 30 years with US second and China initially at third place, but overtaking the US around 2006 ish and finally Europe in 2018.