US Number #1 ....

[Navy1960]

The Global Innovation Index, a ranking of 130 countries released yesterday, calls the US the world's number one innovator. The index was created by Soumitra Dutta, a professor at French business school INSEAD, along with New Delhi based non-profit organization The Confederation of Indian Industry.

The global index ranks Germany second, Sweden third, the UK fourth and Singapore fifth. Contrary to what some might expect, China comes in relatively low at number 37, while India stands at number 41
United States The World's Number One Innovator? | An Itinerant Mind | Fast Company

I have seen many thread on what the US is not number one at and it seems these days that people like to point that out, so in that spirit I though it would be a nice change of pace to see what we are number 1 at.

 

[uscitizen]

Yeah we invented the junk Mortgage securities business.

 

[Navy1960]

Usually, most countries have a good-spirited competition regarding their numbers of winners of Nobel Prizes. The United States has clearly led the pack with over 260 Nobel Prizes. The United Kingdom does not hold nearly as many in the second place with just over 90 Nobel Prizes. Germany currently holds 61 Nobel Prizes. France and Switzerland hold 28 and 22 respectively. Sweden and Russia both can boast of greater than 10 Nobel Prizes. The Netherlands, Denmark and Japan each hold less than 10.

What Countries Have Received the Most Nobel Prizes?

 

[uscitizen]

So Obama is helping you to make your point?

 

[uscitizen]

Innovation is worthless unless it benefits we the people.
It is innovative to outsource jobs.

 

[DiamondDave]

There are other nobel prizes beyond the BS nobel peace prize...

There is no doubt that we have the best research in many sciences, medicine, technology, innovation, etc...

But unless it is some BS WHO rating based on socialist criteria to state that the US is horrible, or that we lead in causing mythical man-made global warming, the wingers don't really want to hear it

 

[Navy1960]

laughs, you mean by winning the Nobel prize? well you said I didn't , he is after all an American and is a Nobel prize winner.

 

[DiamondDave]

Innovation is worthless unless it benefits we the people.
It is innovative to outsource jobs.

My innovation is not your property... a company's innovation is not the property of the populous

But nice try

 

[Charles Stucker]

Innovation is worthless unless it benefits we the people.
It is innovative to outsource jobs.

Innovation typically DOES benefit "we the people"
New patents and concepts allow American industry to remain semi-competitive in the global market; anything we do first, we can sell until someone copies it.
Unfortunately any well runs dry if tapped too heavily and while innovation is still a driving force in many small businesses, it is becoming a bit harder to find in big business.
Success breeds complacency and complacency breeds failure.

 

[uscitizen]

Innovation is worthless unless it benefits we the people.
It is innovative to outsource jobs.

My innovation is not your property... a company's innovation is not the property of the populous

But nice try

right but unless it benefits our country it is not worth much in the standinsg.
Slavery could have been thought of as innovative.

so could castrating all right wingers.

 

[DiamondDave]

Innovation is worthless unless it benefits we the people.
It is innovative to outsource jobs.

My innovation is not your property... a company's innovation is not the property of the populous

But nice try

right but unless it benefits our country it is not worth much in the standinsg.
Slavery could have been thought of as innovative.

so could castrating all right wingers.

Ahhh.. the winger taking the troll approach... how typical

Innovation by US individuals or US companies does benefit "We the People" with those individuals and companies creating new jobs, selling product, improving efficiency, creating new drugs to cure disease, etc....

Does not help you a ton if you expect it belongs to you inherently or that you deserve a handout because of the innovation... but that's on you, not the innovator

 

[Navy1960]

The following is a list of the twelve largest pharmaceutical companies ranked by revenue as of July 2009[update] in the Fortune Global 500.[1]


Rank[1] Company Country Total Revenues (USD millions) Net income/ (loss) (USD millions) Employees
1 Johnson & Johnson United States 63,747.0[2] 12,949.0 118,700
2 Pfizer United States 48,296.0[3] 8,104.0 81,800
3 GlaxoSmithKline United Kingdom 44,654.0[4] 8,438.6 99,003
4 Roche Switzerland 44,267.5[5] 8,288.1 80,080
5 Sanofi-Aventis France 42,179.0[6] 5,636.7 98,213
6 Novartis Switzerland 41,459.0[7] 8,195.0 96,717
7 AstraZeneca United Kingdom 31,601.0[8] 6,101.0 65,000
8 Abbott Laboratories United States 29,527.6[9] 4,880.7 68,838
9 Merck United States 23,850.3[10] 7,808.4 55,200
10 Wyeth United States 22,833.9[11] 4,417.8 47,426
11 Bristol-Myers Squibb United States 21,366.0[12] 5,247.0 35,000
12 Eli Lilly United States 20,378.0[13] (2,071.9) 40,500
List of pharmaceutical companies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[uscitizen]

If we are so innovativce why cannot we innovate our health care system to above 37?
Innovate our education system?
Jobs. Ohh we did and then moved them to china for more profit.

innovation for innovations sake seems to suck.

 

[uscitizen]

We innovated iPhones and they are made in china. Same with PC's, color TV's , etc.
Only a very few seem to benefit from our innovations.

 

[Navy1960]

It's Boeing by a nose in the race to claim the title of the world's largest plane maker in 2009.

Boeing reported its factories turned out 359 aircraft by the end of the third quarter. That's just one more than rival Airbus, which built and delivered 358.

The two aerospace companies are targeting this year's output at 480 to 485 aircraft each.

Net orders aren't keeping pace with production this year as airlines cut back on expansion and other cancel previous orders. Boeing's net orderbook for the year through the first week of October was 70 new aircraft.

Fortunately both aircraft makers rolled up big backlogs prior to the recession, so they can continue producing
The Biz Buzz - World's biggest commercial plane maker? It's Boeing again | The News Tribune | Tacoma, WA

 

[jillian]

Interestingly, the U.S. does well in this comparison, as well, but seems a particular country was left out of the Global Innovation Index...

http://www.ittn.org.il/news.php?cat=22&in=0

And yes, I know it's 2006-2007, but I can't imagine it changing so radically that Israel isn't on the list at all.

 

[DiamondDave]

If we are so innovativce why cannot we innovate our health care system to above 37?
Innovate our education system?
Jobs. Ohh we did and then moved them to china for more profit.

innovation for innovations sake seems to suck.

As if on cue... the winger brings out the WHO rankings that have been debunked...

 

[uscitizen]

The OP article seems to be an advertisement or something.

 

[blastoff]

Usually, most countries have a good-spirited competition regarding their numbers of winners of Nobel Prizes. The United States has clearly led the pack with over 260 Nobel Prizes. The United Kingdom does not hold nearly as many in the second place with just over 90 Nobel Prizes. Germany currently holds 61 Nobel Prizes. France and Switzerland hold 28 and 22 respectively. Sweden and Russia both can boast of greater than 10 Nobel Prizes. The Netherlands, Denmark and Japan each hold less than 10.

What Countries Have Received the Most Nobel Prizes?

28 Nobels for France, huh? Guess they prolly lead the parade of Nobel Surrender Prize winners.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Innovation is worthless unless it benefits we the people.

Fucktard post alert!