For the sixth consecutive year, Switzerland has topped the Global Innovation Index as the world's most innovative economy. The small alpine country also has a firm grasp on its crown as the world's most competitive economy- achieving this status for the eighth-year running.
For a country with little to no natural resources, and a 1:5 cow to people ratio- it produces the largest number of patents in the world (892 per million inhabitant or 224 per million cows) and has one of the highest numbers of knowledge-intensive workers.
