Spending on scientific research & development, 2007:
*North America: $393 billion
*Asia: $320 billion
*Europe: $290 billion
"India's medieval mathematicians invented the zero and modern numerals around 500 AD. Engineers in neighboring China dreamed up paper, explosives, the compass, and movable type. But the 17th-century Scientific Revolution came not in Asia but the west, and so did the 20th century's medicines, airplanes, radio, computers, spacecraft, TV sets, and telecom gear.
Why?"
http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?contentID=254884&knlgAreaID=108&subsecID=127&FREM=Y&sid=1&mid=28101
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