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Beijing

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Regional Ranking: 0.22

Beijing scored steadily towards the bottom of all six categories, but did slightly better in the knowledge creation, technology, and human talent categories.
"The fact that Beijing scores poorly on Society category is not a surprise when its society mainly constitutes of locals/Chinese — lowering the opportunity of enrichment resulted from the exchange of different ideas. Beijing also sees the idea to foster innovation from the wrong angle. The city is focusing on the attempt to extract the technology advancement from foreign firms through the R&D centers based there, while they should be focusing on creating an optimal and friendly environment to spawn world-class innovators instead," Duhamel said.

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