Oh,please! This kind of comparison is so stupid as to beggar the imagination. It is really easy to wire up a country the size of a postage stamp. It is just a bit different to do so in a land area the size of the United States.
Sweden's population is almost the same as Michigan - about 10 million.
“Oh,please! This kind of comparison is so stupid as to beggar the imagination. It is really easy to wire up a country the size of a postage stamp. It is just a bit different to do so in a land area the size of the United States.”
- Yes, Sweden is small, but isn’t this pretty much of a disadvantage when trying to raise national technological levels?
Sweden has small resources in terms of population size and domestic market size compared to the largest European countries, Japan and America, but my country is evidently using them in a very wise manner.
If size is disvantageous in building wealth, howcome large countries like Germany, USA and Japan have been successful in this game and so many small nations have not?
Sweden is home to 9 million inhabitants but still has 40 577 patents registred at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Compare that number to the average European country or the average American state.
USA is definitely a very, very impressive nation from a technological point of view, but in relation to population size, few nations beat Sweden.
For instance, take sub technology:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khaa3y0i87s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WizfFg2Kjnc&feature=related