Is the US Really the Most Innovative Country?: Adrian Wooldridge

Aug. 1, 2025, 11:00 AM UTC

One of the barriers to understanding the world is our fixation on sports thinking: Who is winning and who is catching up? This has long been true of politics — we focus obsessively on the race for the White House while ignoring the debt mountain that may bring the whole system crashing down. It is also becoming true of business. We tend to look at the race for number one without thinking more generally about what being in the lead, in this industry or that niche, means.

Looked at through this sports prism, the innovation landscape is simple. The US is ...

Learn more about Bloomberg Law or Log In to keep reading:

See Breaking News in Context

Bloomberg Law provides trusted coverage of current events enhanced with legal analysis.

Already a subscriber?

Log in to keep reading or access research tools and resources.