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USA Now an Innovation Also-Ran — 11th in World

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Like last year, the continued slide (we were #1 in 2013) is due mostly to lack of investment in hard science, manufacturing, and technology education. Austria comes in at #10. Now, the USA has fallen to 11th in the annual ranking of innovation by country. See the Bloomberg Innovation Index report for 2020 here.