Tracking the World’s Appetite for Innovation
In its quest for what it calls “new metrics for the knowledge economy,” a nonprofit research group has come up with an index of global innovation confidence. The poll of 25,000 people in a dozen nations, published on Tuesday, found the United States squarely in the middle of the pack. America trailed the populations most enthusiastic about new technology, gadgets and services, a group that included the United Arab Emirates, India, Brazil, Ireland and China. Still, the United States came out ahead of those dour Europeans–the least thrilled by technology were the Netherlands, Finland, Slovenia and Turkey.
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