“India has just been marching forward and the US is clinging to the top spot but just by a hair. A lot of countries that are also very good for innovators are the UK, Singapore, Switzerland, Canada and a lot of the countries in Northern Europe. But countries like India and some of the countries in Latin America are marching up. It is a race to see which country is the freest and that will be where most of the great innovators come from.”
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