The Bloomberg agency published a rating of 50 leading countries in the world, which were ranked according to six indicators that promote innovation. Research and development, manufacturing, high technology companies, higher education, scientific personnel and the number of patents were selected as such indicators. In total, the indicators of more than 200 countries of the world were evaluated.
In general, the ranking is dominated by the countries of Asia and Western Europe. The best Latin American representative is Brazil at 47th place, while the highest place among African countries is Tunisia at 44th place.
South Korea took first place, up from 21st place in 2012, followed by the US at sixth, the UK at 10 and China at 22.
The top five were: South Korea, Japan, Germany, Finland and Israel.
The leadership in various categories was determined as follows: South Korea became the first in research and development and the number of patents, Finland - in the category of scientific and research personnel, Switzerland - according to the production index of the United States - in the position of high-tech companies.
In the higher education category, which includes the number of students receiving a higher education, the percentage of the labor force with a higher education, and the number of engineering graduates as a percentage of the labor force, South Korea, Finland, Russia, Israel, and Ukraine take the top spots.
The data underlying the ranking was obtained from several sources, including Bloomberg, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, UNESCO, Samsung and the World Intellectual Property Organization.
According to the material: Bloomberg
