The ‘Innovation Barometer’ found that four of the five European countries included in the survey of 22 nations came in the top 10 when all were asked to rate the leading innovation champions.
Germany took second place – pipped by the US – with the UK, France, and Sweden bagging seventh, eighth and ninth spots respectively.
Italy came 11th, whilst Poland, the final EU member state in the survey, remained unrated.
However, when businesses in the same survey countries were asked how satisfied they were with the innovation environment within their home nations, Poland, France, the UK and Germany were the third, fourth, fifth and eighth most pessimistic, respectively.
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