Ireland surges ahead in innovation

[Urbanguerrilla]

Germany, with the advantages of scale that go with a population eight times bigger, lodged 335 patent applications per million residents. But the Czech Republic, of a similar size to Greece and Portugal, managed 16. Much-smaller Ireland boasted 112, according to calculations based on data on the EPO website.

Greece and Portugal are not the only innovation laggards. Worryingly, Italy and Spain both spend less than Portugal on R&D and trail Ireland badly on patent filings, at 67 and 31 per million inhabitants respectively.

Euro zone strugglers lack innovative knack | Reuters

 

[PeteEU]

Germany, with the advantages of scale that go with a population eight times bigger, lodged 335 patent applications per million residents. But the Czech Republic, of a similar size to Greece and Portugal, managed 16. Much-smaller Ireland boasted 112, according to calculations based on data on the EPO website.

Greece and Portugal are not the only innovation laggards. Worryingly, Italy and Spain both spend less than Portugal on R&D and trail Ireland badly on patent filings, at 67 and 31 per million inhabitants respectively.

Euro zone strugglers lack innovative knack | Reuters

Seriously? LOL

The reason Ireland has so many filings is because.... drum roll.... low corporation tax that has attracted many international companies to Ireland and they then file their patents there since they count all over the EU.

 

[Urbanguerrilla]

Germany, with the advantages of scale that go with a population eight times bigger, lodged 335 patent applications per million residents. But the Czech Republic, of a similar size to Greece and Portugal, managed 16. Much-smaller Ireland boasted 112, according to calculations based on data on the EPO website.

Greece and Portugal are not the only innovation laggards. Worryingly, Italy and Spain both spend less than Portugal on R&D and trail Ireland badly on patent filings, at 67 and 31 per million inhabitants respectively.

Euro zone strugglers lack innovative knack | Reuters

Seriously? LOL

The reason Ireland has so many filings is because.... drum roll.... low corporation tax that has attracted many international companies to Ireland and they then file their patents there since they count all over the EU.

Still good tho, init