Finland - not very innovative
Antti Vilpponen
The Institute for Innovation and Information Productivity has interviewed about 25000 people around the world on what they call innovation confidence. Finland has received 44 points of the 100 possible points, which makes it the one of the least thrilled by technology. We’re in the pack together with Slovenia, Turkey and the Netherlands.
This is very worrying, as we’ve been noted as one of the most technologically advanced countries, especially when it comes to the mobile phones and internet. Finland is usually considered in general a very early adapter of new technologies and thus it’s stressful to see this sort of attitude change.
Via New York Times and ReadWriteWeb.
January 24th, 2008 at 8:22 am
That is worrying but it’s also a little odd. Anyone who has been to Britain or Ireland knows very well that they are way behind Finns in the adoption of new technologies. I have to conclude that there are probably some issues with people’s self-reporting here. Either that or Finns are not very thrilled by technology but they buy it anyway!
January 24th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Yeah, without knowing anything about the survey techniques itself - it’s a bit hard to say.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
There are a lot definitions of innovation, but heres a good one: 1.”The three stages in the process of innovation: invention, translation and commercialization.” Invention happens here for sure, but the translation and commercialization part are pretty much a graveyard. This means a lot of technical trials, etc., but little real business (outside the big vendors like Nokia, Kone, etc). At least in my own daily life I see few signs of recent Finnish innovations at work here in Finland, thus not a big surprise that Finns are not “confident in innovation. Nice blog by the way…