International Design Scoreboard ranks countries

The first International Design Scoreboard, which ranks countries by their design capabilities, sees the US top in absolute terms and UK fourth. When the size of the economy is taken to account, Singapore tops the table, with the UK dropping down to sixth and the US to 11th. The Scoreboard has been produced by a consortium of British universities led by the University of Cambridge and supported by the Design Council. It measures countries’ design capability based on a number of factors, including public investment in design, total number of design graduates, and number of World Intellectual Patent Office design registrations, and levels of employment in the design sector. Source: Design Week, 15 April 2009. http://tinyurl.com/c36ywv