Right, because Europe is so innovative.
The mother of invention is idiomatically necessity, not comfort.
Ultimately, increased levels of competition should lead to higher levels of innovation.
Btw, what is "the GCC era" a reference to?
The mother of invention is idiomatically necessity, not comfort.
Ultimately, increased levels of competition should lead to higher levels of innovation.
Btw, what is "the GCC era" a reference to?
China is arguably more innovative than all and has terrible work life balance, but their society is stable and you won't go from millionaire to homeless just because you had to get cancer treatment.
GCC = global consulting companies, the bane of innovation. Outsourcing of all kinds (even domestic C2C) should be banned.
I ask because, when I do a Google search, the two most common meanings for that term are “Global Capacity Center” and “Gulf Cooperation Council”.
Also, China is 3rd, behind South Korea & Japan
That & the differing levels of patent application per capita across Europe suggests that patent applications are directly related to work/life balance & perhaps some sort of infonomic aggregation & doesn't seem to support any correlation with quality of life.
Chinese society is more "metastable" than really stable. The Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen Square massacre weren't that long ago. Chinese history going back millennia is full of violent revolutions and civil wars. Xi Jinping has been able to keep a lid on things lately through brutal purges of all other potential power centers but times may get "interesting" again when he leaves power.