Ireland is streets ahead of the other PIIGS on innovation

[Impartial_Eclipse]

To get an idea of the economic mountain euro zone strugglers Greece and Portugal have to climb, consider this: per million inhabitants, they each filed fewer than eight applications with the European Patent Office in 2010.

Germany, with the advantages of scale that go with a population eight times bigger, lodged 335 patent applications per million residents. But the Czech Republic, of a similar size to Greece and Portugal, managed 16. Much-smaller Ireland boasted 112, according to calculations based on data on the EPO website.

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Greece and Portugal are not the only innovation laggards. Worryingly, Italy and Spain both spend less than Portugal on R&D and trail Ireland badly on patent filings, at 67 and 31 per million inhabitants respectively.

Source:
Analysis: Euro zone strugglers lack innovative knack | Reuters

[Asparagus]

So we are prorata 1/3 of german research output and are savaging our research and education budgets to pay their banks...
.. and thats a good thing

[daveL]

To get an idea of the economic mountain euro zone strugglers Greece and Portugal have to climb, consider this: per million inhabitants, they each filed fewer than eight applications with the European Patent Office in 2010.

Germany, with the advantages of scale that go with a population eight times bigger, lodged 335 patent applications per million residents. But the Czech Republic, of a similar size to Greece and Portugal, managed 16. Much-smaller Ireland boasted 112, according to calculations based on data on the EPO website.

[..]

Greece and Portugal are not the only innovation laggards. Worryingly, Italy and Spain both spend less than Portugal on R&D and trail Ireland badly on patent filings, at 67 and 31 per million inhabitants respectively.

Source:
Analysis: Euro zone strugglers lack innovative knack | Reuters

yeah

and we have loads of MNCs with huge R&D budgets

go figure

[Gimpanzee]

So we are prorata 1/3 of german research output and are savaging our research and education budgets to pay their banks...
.. and thats a good thing

take a fact, subtract some well worn bullsh!t, and hey presto - you have some generic P.ie nonsense

[Impartial_Eclipse]

yeah

and we have loads of MNCs with huge R&D budgets

go figure

Actually, many of them don't have a research presence here..... yet.

See this link, 3rd paragraph.

SMEs secure over 20% of Ireland

[Impartial_Eclipse]

So anyway, what do you call a desperate, irrational fear of good news about one's country?

____phobia?

Loads of people on P.ie have it.

[Gimpanzee]

yeah

and we have loads of MNCs with huge R&D budgets

go figure

I'd like to know how much of that is 'real' R&D rather than stuff that is thrown into that bucket for tax purposes

[H.R. Haldeman]

I think we should use the phrase PIGGSF from now on, just for lulz at Sarkozy and cause it looks so funny.

[hedzog]

So anyway, what do you call a desperate, irrational fear of good news about one's country?

____phobia?

Loads of people on P.ie have it.

good news , yes , spin , no

[seabhcan]

Plenty of good, productive and profitable R&D doesn't get patented. Patents have a special function, but they are not an absolute measure of R&D success.