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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on July 22, 2009, 09:32:21 am
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Ran accross this gem and thought it was pretty interesting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Innovation_Index)
In the overall ranking Singapore and South Korea are number one and two respctively, while the US is number 8.
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Ran accross this gem and thought it was pretty interesting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Innovation_Index)
In the overall ranking Singapore and South Korea are number one and two respctively, while the US is number 8.
Fixed for great justice! ;7
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Took care of the broken link.
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JUST KIDDING
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Does negative performance indicate your nation is in a technological back slide?
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If I had to guess I would say it means the more negative the number the more tech they have to import.
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How do you quantify innovation?
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How do you quantify innovation?
QFFT
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Most likely patents and trademarks applied for, it's the only way to quantify it.
/tinfoilhat There's probably a ZP energy device somewhere in the government's warehouse of ideas.
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Most likely patents and trademarks applied for, it's the only way to quantify it.
/tinfoilhat There's probably a ZP energy device somewhere in the government's warehouse of ideas.
Partly.
It looks at new policy indicators for innovation, including tax incentives and policies for immigration, education and intellectual property.
To rank the countries, the study measured both innovation inputs and outputs. Innovation inputs included government and fiscal policy, education policy and the innovation environment. Outputs included patents, technology transfer, and other R&D results; business performance, such as labor productivity and total shareholder returns; and the impact of innovation on business migration and economic growth.
How to quantify it? Assign numbers to performance and factors that encourage it (policies mainly)
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It looks at new policy indicators for innovation, including tax incentives and policies for immigration, education and intellectual property.
To rank the countries, the study measured both innovation inputs and outputs. Innovation inputs included government and fiscal policy, education policy and the innovation environment. Outputs included patents, technology transfer, and other R&D results; business performance, such as labor productivity and total shareholder returns; and the impact of innovation on business migration and economic growth.
How to quantify it? Assign numbers to performance and factors that encourage it (policies mainly)
Yes, that's certainly what they said in the articles. That's not what I'm confused about. What I want to know is how they turned those into numbers.
For example, they said they "measured" innovation inputs and outputs. Innovation inputs include government policies. How do you "measure" those?
Forgive me, but this sounds like one of those miracle weight-loss drug commercials.
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What I want to know is how they turned those into numbers.
Isn't that what I just answered?
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What I want to know is how they turned those into numbers.
Isn't that what I just answered?
:wtf: You told be what qualities they look at.
Past that, you told me that they assign numbers to performance and factors that encourage it, which honestly is extremely obvious. What I want to know is how they determined which factors correlate to which numbers.