I see that a new study puts Switzerland in top spot out of 125 countries for innovation.
Can this really be so? Or is it another example of garbage-in-garbage-out?
Anyway, the "Global Innovation Index" is the work of INSEAD in partnership with Alcatel-Lucent, Booz and Co and others, computed as an “average of scores across input pillars”, and also “how economies leverage their enabling environments to stimulate innovation results”. Ah.
Reading about it, my mind went immediately to Orson Welles’s brief speech in The Third Man:
“In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.
“In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
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