Abstract – A country’s economic and industrial
progress is strongly governed by the level of its
innovation. However, the conditions that influence and
encourage stronger innovation trends are difficult to
determine, and this is due in part to the lack of a clear
consensus among diverse indicators of an economy’s
innovative capacity as well as to the complex relations
between such factors. This study independently
analyzes a few representative indicators of innovation
for various input variables considered to enable
innovation and ranks and selects them based on two
different analysis paradigms. One draws an overall
picture of relationships and interactions between
different variables and describes the position of
significant countries, and the other selects a set of
relevant features to extract rules typifying this
multifaceted interaction. A good consensus is observed
for these two analysis paradigms.

Jinhang Du, Xin Song, Zhen Wang, Sungho Park, Tianchen Shi

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