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What if the US isn’t the world’s most innovative country?
Why not China or even Singapore? A new book suggests that there are lots of different innovation races with different end points and measures of success.
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The US is still far ahead in the innovation landscape. Yet China is breathing down America’s neck – and in some areas, it is taking the lead.
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Adrian Wooldridge
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One of the barriers to understanding the world is our fixation on sports thinking: Who is winning and who is catching up? This has long been true of politics – we focus obsessively on the race for the White House while ignoring the debt mountain that may bring the whole system crashing down.
It is also becoming true of business. We tend to look at the race for number one without thinking more generally about what being in the lead, in this industry or that niche, means.
