[pissant]

Good. Lets work to create a 100 year gap.

[2banana]

Socialism works...!

[nuke rocketeer]

The EU solution......government mandated innovation.

[RegulatorCountry]

Well, just wait until the new EU ten year plan, mandating "innovation," while heavily subsidizing anything and anyone displaced by same. That'll show us, lol.

[DeFault User]

Switzerland, which is not an EU member, comes second overall – ahead of both Japan and the US.

I didn't realize cuckoo clock design had advanced so much.

[Restorer]

How can this be?

I thought we were falling behind the rest of the world in every way.

[IronJack]

Also in today's news:

Sun Rises in East
Object Dropped from Building Falls to Ground
Francisco Franco Still Dead

[untenured]

Ireland, meanwhile, is told that it “must make the transition from an economy where foreign investment played a large role...to an economy based on innovation”.

False choice.

[wolf78]

Interestingly the US is ranked right in between Germany and Denmark, which comes directly after Japan, with Sweden and Switzerland being ahead of those four.

Turkey, on the other hand is ranked last in the study, with only one third of the points the "weakest" EU states got (Malta, Latvia etc.).