The-Global-Sustainable-Competitiveness-Index-2015

Summary
Sustainable
Competitive
Natural
Capital
Social
Capital
Intellectual
Capital
Governance
Resource
Management
Spotlight
Data
The Intellectual Capital World Map
Intellectual Capital is the basis for innovation capability and sustainable
economic competitiveness. The indicators used for assessing these criteria are
composed of data points relating to education, innovation capabilities, and
entrepreneurship. Countries with a high score in this ranking are more likely than
others to develop (or sustain) successful economies through research and knowledge
driven industries, i.e. high-value added industries, and therefore achieve
higher growth rates. All indicators used to assess the innovation capability and
sustainable competitiveness have been scored against size of the population or
against GDP in order to gain a full picture of the competitiveness, independent
of the size of a country. In addition, developments (trends) of performance
indicators have also been taken into account. Key observations of the
Intellectual Capital ranking include:
The innovation and competitiveness ranking is dominated by the North-
Eastern Asian nations and OECD countries from the Northern hemisphere.
The innovation and competitiveness ranking is topped by Asian countries:
South Korea, China, Japan, Singapore
All other Top-20 places are occupied by European economies
(Germany, Slovenia, Luxembourg, all Nordic countries) except for Israel
(14). Eastern European countries and Former Soviet Republics also fare
well.
Malaysia (26), Costa Rica (46) and Cuba (47) are the highest ranked
countries of the Southern hemisphere.
Russia is ranked 25, Brazil 61, and India 105.
The Intellectual Capital World Map. Dark areas indicate high, light areas low availability of Intellectual Capital
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