Creative Innovation: Conclusions

So, what factors make a country INNOVATIVE?

HAPPY
Factors such as the country's happiness level?
HEALTHY
Factors such as life expectancy?
WEALTH
Factors such as the country's GDP?
WISE
Factors such as the country's education level?

Innovation Groups

Innovation Takeaways

Hover over spinning values to see what our team found in the data.

High innovation countries publish
3x
more scientific publications
High innovation countries spend
4x
more in R&D
Low innovation countries have mortality rate
14x
higher than high innovation countries
GDP in high innovation countries is
6x
higher than medium innovation and
34x
higher than low innovation countries
High innovation countries produce
2x
more feature films
High innvoation countries have
5x
more broadband subscriptions than medium and
175x
more than low innovation countries
30%
more people in high innovation countries are employed in cultural occupations
Literacy rate is
47%
higher in high and medium innovation countries than low innovation countries

Based on our analysis, the K-means unsupervised model with 3 clusters (evaluating both creative and economic factors) produced the best assessment of the innovation level of a country.

By evaluating the countries grouped in each of the 3 clusters, we were able to determine which cluster consisted of countries with high, medium, and low levels of innovation (as seen in the map below). By clicking on the circle icons, the map will update to show the clustering for factors that are creative only (purple art easel), economic only (green piggy bank), or both (blue lightbulb).

There were three different combinations of input categories in our analysis: creative only, economic (non-creative) only, and both. Since we determined that the model with both creative and economic factors produced the best results, the visualization below can be used to quickly identify the differences in results for each of these models.