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According to the Report, the top 10 countries including
Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the U.S.,

etc., have relatively equal numbers of talent in each of
the above nine categories. In short, these countries are
diversified in terms of talent variety.

The more diversified, the more innovative

For example, Switzerland, which ranked first in
innovativeness, has the largest number of talent in three
categories, namely (2) business administration and law,
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(6) information technology and (9) social sciences. Having
said that, each of them only has less than one fifth of the
whole talent population. Among the nine professional
fields, five of them each only constitute 10% to 20% of the

total number of talent in the country. The same is seen in
the Netherlands.

Moreover, these countries have no shortage of uncommon

talents, such as artists. In the U.S., art practitioners
constitute 9% of the overall talent pool. On the contrary,
in some countries, a certain category of professional is