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Top 100 Global Innovators | 2013 Winners
United States 45
Japan 28
France 12
Switzerland 4
Germany 3
South Korea 3
Sweden 2
Canada 1
Netherlands 1
Taiwan 1
And the longer Obama is in office, the lower the number will drop
We have 45 of 100 companies. The only one closing in is Japan, but they have always been an innovator. Doesn't look like America is declining. But I'm sure you wish we would, so you can say "Obama did it!"
Top 100 Global Innovators | 2013 Winners
United States 45
Japan 28
France 12
Switzerland 4
Germany 3
South Korea 3
Sweden 2
Canada 1
Netherlands 1
Taiwan 1
And the longer Obama is in office, the lower the number will drop
2011-40
2012-47
2013-45
Fail.
Is FoxConn the building that had to place nets around the outside to keep workers from jumping to their deaths? Ya, there's something we wanna emulate.
Top 100 Global Innovators | 2013 Winners
United States 45
Japan 28
France 12
Switzerland 4
Germany 3
South Korea 3
Sweden 2
Canada 1
Netherlands 1
Taiwan 1
About 40 percent of our Ph.D. scientists and engineers were born in another country, Orrenius writes. People tend to focus on illegal or low-skilled immigration when discussing immigrants and often do not recognize the tremendous contribution of high-skilled immigrants.
A new study, released last week, throws new information into the debate over foreign workers who arrive in the U.S. on such specialty visas.
The report, based on telephone surveys with 2,054 companies and projections by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and Duke University, says about 25 percent of the technology and engineering companies launched in the U.S. in the past decade had at least one foreign-born founder.
These immigrant founders tended to be highly educated96 percent held bachelors degrees and 74 percent held graduate or postgraduate degrees, with 75 percent of these degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related fields. The vast majority of these company founders didnt come to the United States as entrepreneurs 52 percent came to study, 40 percent came to work, and 5.5 percent came for family reasons. Only 1.6 percent came to start companies in America.
Even though these founders immigrated for other purposes initially, they typically started their companies just 13.25 years after arriving in the United States. And, rather than settling in well-established immigrant gateways, such as New York or Los Angeles, they moved to a diverse group of tech centers across the country and helped fuel their growth.
While 23 percent of the nation's cooks and 20 percent of its janitors were immigrants in 2000, 27 percent of new computer-software engineers were also immigrants, according to a recent Migration Policy Institute study.
Indeed, the more technically educated the group, the more likely immigrants are to be overrepresented in it. While the foreign born make up 15 percent of the overall workforce, according to the 2000 census, they constitute approximately 17 percent of those with a bachelor's degree in science and engineering occupations, 29 percent of those with a master's degree, and 39 percent of those with a doctoral degree.
We do have to figure out where our strength lies, as decisions we make will affect our competitiveness.Yet if it were made in American at union factories the cost of such items would be 10 times as much and you would not be able to buy the products to post your far left propaganda.
