According to the new Global Innovation Index, Chile is the most innovative country in Latin America, Mexico is one ...
According to the new Global Innovation Index, Chile is the most innovative country in Latin America, Mexico is one of the country that has shown the greatest improvements, and Spain still fails to recover the investment levels in innovation it had prior its crisis.
The survey, developed by the University of Cornell, the INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization, places Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, and Singapore as the top five countries in terms of global innovation, and states China is making huge progress in this area.
Spain remains no. 28 in the ranking, the same place it has had since 2014, and the report claims the country has not recover the investment levels it had prior the economic crisis yet.
Spain, the USA, Germany, and India are among the largest wind energy producers, and have shown stable growth in this area.
Even though it fell down one place, Chile is the country with the highest score in Latin America, being no. 47. It is followed by Costa Rica (54), and Mexico (56), which climbed two places in the ranking.
There are two other countries in the upper half of the list: Uruguay (62) and Colombia (63). As regards the rest of Latin American countries, Brazil is number 64, followed by Panama (70), Peru (71), Argentina (80), Jamaica (81), the Dominican Republic (87), Paraguay (87), Trinidad and Tobago (96), Ecuador (97), Guatemala (102), El Salvador (104), Honduras (105) and Bolivia, which is number117, among 126 countries.
Once again, Nicaragua and Venezuela did not make in the ranking due to lack of data.
Source: Diario de Centro América
