Thailand edges up for innovation in business

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Thailand edges up for innovation in business

By The Nation

 

Photo by: Global Innovation Index

 

Thailand ranks 43rd in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2019, up one place from last year, according to the latest report published by the World Intellectual Property Organizations (WIPO), the INSEAD business schools and Cornell University on Thursday. 

 

Providing 80 detailed metrics for 129 economies, the GII has become one of the leading references for measuring an economy’s performance as it relates to innovation.

 

The report rated Thailand as among the better achievers and among those middle-income economies making purposeful strides to bridge the innovation divide.

 

This year, four of the seven GII pillars see improvements in the Kingdom: institutions (57th), human capital and research (52nd), business sophistication (60th), and knowledge and technology output (38th).

 

The country has benefited from improvements in important indicators such as R&D expenditure, research talent, and gdomestic expenditure on R&D (GERD) financed by business, where it ranks 4th. It also did well for its tertiary enrolments, researchers, and patent designs.

 

Compared with other ASEAN economies, Thailand is exceptionally strong in trade-related variables, ranking 8th in high-tech net exports and 1st in the creation of creative goods.

 

Some weak areas were also identified – these included PISA results, venture capital deals, GERD financed overseas, plus ICT services imports and exports but the report said that if addressed, these could help the economy scale the innovation ladder even faster.

 

Thailand’s Asian neighbours were among the stellar performers, with Singapore (88th, South Korea (11th), Hong Kong (13th), China (14th), Japan (15th) and Australia (22nd) the highest-ranked in the region.

 

Switzerland leads the world for the ninth consecutive year, the rest of the top five being Sweden, the US, the Netherlands and the UK.

 

Finland and Denmark follow in 6th and 7th.

 

The overall picture shows innovation withstanding the pressures of slowing global economic growth.

 

However, only a handful of nations are reaping the full benefits and a clear innovation gap persists.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/business/30373656

 

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[lungbing]

Innovation in business in Thailand means finding innovative ways of cheating the customer.

[DLock]

...just behind Vietnam...Thailand will not be happy with that.

[dcnx]

9 minutes ago, DLock said:

...just behind Vietnam...Thailand will not be happy with that.

They are a good 10 years away, but Vietnam is going to leave Thailand in the dust for everything.

 

As the neighboring countries come up and improve their education, Thailand is getting worse with no light at the end of the tunnel. Thailand will eventually be the arm pit of South East Asia and I hope I’m still alive to see it happen from afar. 

[keemapoot]

10 minutes ago, DLock said:

...just behind Vietnam...Thailand will not be happy with that.

True, behind just one ranking point, but also behind Malaysia (35), but considerably ahead of Philippines (54), and Indonesia (85), other Asean competitors.

 

Globally, the US is top tier top 5 (3rd), and the other largest and most powerful world economies looking pretty good: Germany (9), China (14) Japan (15).

 

Overall, not a bad showing by Thailand.

[keemapoot]

4 minutes ago, dcnx said:

They are a good 10 years away, but Vietnam is going to leave Thailand in the dust for everything.

Certainly Vietnam has been on a rapid growth path these past 10 years or more. However, people get carried away with Vietnam's potential often, and as you can see from the Global Finance Emerging Markets hotspots map, Vietnam is now merely rated "warm," whereas Thailand remains rated "hot" to "sizzling." 

 

https://www.gfmag.com/global-data/economic-data/emerging-markets-hot-spots-2019

[DrTuner]

'Thailand is exceptionally strong in trade-related variables, ranking 8th in high-tech net exports'

 

The factories churning out products for western companies are regarded as innovative?