TODAY’S fast-paced global economy is ruled by innovators. Those who invent new products and processes or create their own businesses are the main drivers of economic growth.
But innovations do not occur in a vacuum. Places with high concentrations of scientists and engineers, high-tech jobs, patents, venture capital and public and private investment in research and development have a greater capacity to innovate and to succeed economically.
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