The Global Innovation Index 2017 was released the other day. Pretty typical results for Australian in these types of rankings, we fell from 19th in the world in 2016 to 23rd in 2017. The top spots were held by the 'usual suspects', including Singapore, South Korea, Japan, etc. in Asia-Pacific. Most interestingly, China climbed from 25th spot in 2016 to 22nd in 2017 (that's right AHEAD of Australia). As with most rankings like this, the methodology behind it needs to be consid