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The Tokyo-Yokohama cluster beat San Jose-San Francisco to rank second behind Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou in the 18th Global Innovation Index (GII), which measures innovation performance of 140 economies and reveals the top 100 innovation clusters. Just outside the top ten is Osaka–Kobe–Kyoto and Nagoya at 28th, while Japan ranked 12th in the GII’s 100 Most Innovative Economies, just…
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