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The Category Leaders: 5 Key Benchmarks

Here are the top-10 countries—listed alphabetically—in each of the individual five categories. In assessing the innovation strength of each country, it is important to look at the measurements that comprise the overall innovation score. Because the innovation score is the simple average of the five category measurements, examining the strength in each category can indicate areas for improvement or rationalize why dissimilar countries might have similar innovation scores.