{"id":15689,"date":"2018-10-15T12:31:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T12:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=15689"},"modified":"2018-10-19T18:51:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T18:51:57","slug":"south-korea-leads-global-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/ceo-life\/travel\/south-korea-leads-global-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea leads global economy innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>South Korea and Sweden lead as the\u00a0world&#8217;s most innovative economies.\u00a0<\/b><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>South Korea is the\u00a0world&#8217;s most innovative economy, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-01-22\/south-korea-tops-global-innovation-ranking-again-as-u-s-falls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg<em>&#8216;<\/em>s\u00a0top-ten innovation index<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S., on the other hand, fell\u00a0out of top 10 for first time in the gauge\u2019s six years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<ul id=\"attachment_15714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 1480px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yy.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15714 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1480\" height=\"1130\" srcset=\"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yy-300x229.png 300w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yy-500x382.png 500w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yy-580x443.png 580w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yy-600x458.png 600w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yy-700x534.png 700w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yy-768x586.png 768w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yy-860x657.png 860w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yy-1024x782.png 1024w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yy-1160x886.png 1160w, http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/yy.png 1480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1480px) 100vw, 1480px\" \/><\/a><\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>The top 10 in innovation, according to Bloomberg.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>In other key findings inside the research,\u00a0Singapore ranked ahead of Germany, Switzerland and Finland.<\/p>\n<p>On the topic,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/people.sutd.edu.sg\/~kiatseng_yeo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yeo Kiat Seng<\/a>, professor and associate provost at the <a href=\"https:\/\/sutd.edu.sg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Singapore University of Technology and Design<\/a>, stated\u00a0\u201cSingapore has always placed strong focus on educating her populace, especially in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the fifth consecutive year, South Korea remains the global-innovation gold medalist as its smartphones and digital-media equipment spawned an ecosystem of Korean suppliers and partners similar to what Japan developed around\u00a0Sony Corp.\u00a0and\u00a0Toyota Motors.<\/p>\n<p>China closed in at position No. 19 due to the high proportion of new science and engineering graduates that adventured in the local labour force.<\/p>\n<p>The other Asian parties were\u00a0Malaysia, who ranked 26, falling three\u00a0notches from last year. Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-01-17\/sweden-gains-south-korea-reigns-as-world-s-most-innovative-economies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 2017 rank<\/a>, Hong Kong&#8217;s position fell by two spots to 37, while Thailand went down the index by one spot to 45.<\/p>\n<p>As the U.S. failed to share of new science and engineering graduates in the labor force and set up value-added manufacturing, President Trump\u00b4s America\u00a0fell to 11th place.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Innovation ranks across the rest of the world<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Prinn Panitchpakdi, country head of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clsa.com\/global\/asia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLSA Thailand<\/a>, an Asian brokerage and investment group, said the U.S., Korea and China share a common trait, which\u00a0is that people accept failure as part of the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInnovation lags in countries where the culture emphasizes risk avoidance and where R&amp;D is seen purely an expense, not an investment. That\u2019s the mindset in Thailand&#8221;, he continued.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since 2014,\u00a0South Africa and Iran moved back into the top 50.\u00a0Turkey jumped to 33rd because of improvements in tertiary efficiency and productivity, among others.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand and Ukraine, on the other hand, faced a shift and lost positions, as they were hurt by a lower tertiary-efficiency ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Russia stumbled following sanctions related to Ukraine and the plunge in energy prices, finishing at No. 25.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg<em>&#8216;<\/em>s\u00a0top-ten innovation index ranks countries based on their research and development expenditure, productivity and concentration of high-tech public companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea and Sweden lead as the\u00a0world&#8217;s most innovative economies.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[721,324,722,14],"class_list":["post-15689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-bloomberg","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-global-innovation","tag-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15689"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18929,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15689\/revisions\/18929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}