The United States Is Losing Its Innovative Edge: Report

  • In 2009, 51% of U.S. patents were awarded to non-U.S. companies.
  • China has replaced the U.S. as the world’s number one high-technology exporter and is now second in the world in publication of biomedical research articles.
  • Between 1996 and 1999, 157 new drugs were approved in the United States. In a corresponding period 10 years later, the number dropped to 74.
  • Almost one-third of U.S. manufacturing companies responding to a recent survey say they are suffering from some level of skills shortage.

  1. d2fang reblogged this from infoneer-pulse and added:
    Did the US ever have it? All the awesome, ahead-of-its-time flashy tech stuff I know of is from Asia.
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