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Estonia gains a position in the global top list of innovative states

BC, Tallinn, 21.07.2014.Print version
Estonia was on the 24th place in the world in the year 2014 global innovation index, one place higher than last year,Latvia ranks 34th, Lithuania 39th, reports ELTA/LETA.

Among European countries, Estonia ranked 15th, getting 51.1 points out of a hundred.


The leaders of the innovation index that is being published for the 7th time are Switzerland with 64.8 points, UK 62.4 with points and Sweden with 62.3 points.


The ranking took into account 84 separate indicators, starting from the national political environment stability, freedom of the press and education spending, and ending with films produced in the country, and the number of Wikipedia entries per population.


The index was compiled by Cornell University, the business school INSEAD and the UN agency the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).






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