What are the internationally recognized innovative countries?

At present, there are about 20 recognized innovative countries in the world, including the United States, Japan, Finland and South Korea. The common characteristics of these countries are: the comprehensive index of innovation is significantly higher than other countries, the contribution rate of scientific and technological progress is above 70%, the proportion of R&D investment in GDP is generally above 2%, and the index of foreign technology dependence is generally below 30%.

In addition, the number of tripartite patents (patents granted by the United States, Europe and Japan) obtained by these countries accounts for the vast majority of the world.

2. Innovative countries refer to those countries that take scientific and technological innovation as their basic strategy, greatly improve their scientific and technological innovation capabilities, and form increasingly strong competitive advantages. Innovative countries regard scientific and technological innovation as the core driving force of economic and social development.

Mainly as follows:

The whole society has high investment in innovation activities, strong international technological competitiveness of important industries and high input-output performance. Scientific and technological progress and technological innovation play an important role in industrial development and national wealth growth.

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The overall goal of building an innovative country in China is:

By 2020, China's independent innovation ability will be significantly enhanced, the ability of science and technology to promote economic and social development and safeguard national security will be significantly enhanced, the comprehensive strength of basic science and cutting-edge technology research will be significantly enhanced, and a number of scientific and technological achievements with great influence in the world will be achieved, and China will enter the ranks of innovative countries, providing strong support for building a well-off society in an all-round way.

People's Network Encyclopedia of Party History-Innovative Country

Baidu Encyclopedia-Innovative Country