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'China to become world's most important centre for innovation by 2020' | China will overtake both the United States and Japan to become the world's most important centre for innovation by 2020, according to a public opinion survey to be published on Monday. China is already the world's second-largest economy,
after establishing itself as the global workshop for manufacturing. Now it wants
to move up the value chain by leading in invention as well. Today, the United
States ranks as the world's most innovative country, with 30 percent of people
surveyed taking that view, followed by Japan on 25 percent and China on 14 percent.
Fast-forward 10 years, however, and 27 percent of people think China will be top
dog, followed by India with 17 percent, the United States 14 percent and Japan
12 percent, according to the survey of 6,000 people in six countries done by drugmaker
AstraZeneca, reports the China Daily. The shift is not because the United States
is doing less science and technology, but because countries like China and India
are doing more - a fact reflected in a spike-up in successful Asian research efforts
in recent years. The survey across Britain , the United States , Sweden , Japan
, India and China found a strong sense of optimism amongst people living in China
and India , in contrast to relative pessimism in the developed Western economies.
More than half of those in China and India thought their home countries would
be the most innovative in the world by 2020, while just one in 20 Britons thought
Britain would be able to claim this title.
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