There's probably no other country as innovative as the United States. At least that's the trope. But recent statistics from the U.S. Patent Office and new independent surveys suggest much of America's innovation is not home-grown: Many of the country's best and brightest ideas come from non-citizens.
"There's the idea of the American melting pot, everything and everyone comes here," says Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur and researcher of public policy at Stanford Law School. "When we combine this with entrepreneurship and the American Dream, world-changing ideas come from America."
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