The United Kingdom – also mired in recession – is the world's fourth most innovative economy, ranking behind Germany and Sweden, the study found.
The Global Innovation Index – released in New Delhi on Tuesday – looks far beyond traditional indicators of innovation such as the percentage of gross domestic product spent on research and development, numbers of engineering graduates, and numbers of patents obtained and scientific papers published each year.
Instead, the index seeks to measure an economy's potential for a broad range of innovation – including social, marketing, and business innovations – by assessing its institutions and policies, infrastructure, and business and market sophistication as well as people's skills.
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