1. USA: Innovation

2. Silicon Valley, CA: Facebook
User interaction
Marketing opportunities
News Feed

3. Silicon Valley, CA: Uber
Driverless cars
Ride sharing
Taking Ubers everywhere is as cheap as (if not cheaper) than public transportation in many places.

4. Silicon Valley, CA: Apple Inc.
Innovative products such as: MacIntosh computers (1996), the iPod (2004), iPod Touch (2006), iPhone (2009)
Sleek products that continue to evolve

5. Silicon Valley, CA: Google
Android products
Google search engine, SEO
Google Maps
Google Translate
Driverless cars
Google Glass

6. Seattle, WA: Amazon Prime and benefits 1-Click checkout Kindle
Food and grocery delivery services
Marketing and recommnedations

7. NYC, NY: Blue Apron
One of the first meal subscription companies in the U.S.
Delivers ingredients and the recipe for meals that the customer then cooks for themselves at home.

8. NYC, NY: SoulCycle Indoor cycling company with a “cult following”
Exercise class that has inspired many businesses to copy them.

9. Florida, USA: NASA One of 10 “headquarters”
Some inventions attributed to NASA: Water filters, memory foam, hearing aids, baby formula, computer mouse, cellphone cameras, etc.

10. Boston, USA: MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern computer coding, hacking, etc.
Programming languages, development of modern computers and world wide web

11. 2018 Global Innovation Index
By the World Intellectual Property Organization:
Switzerland (number 1 in 2017)
Netherlands (3)
Sweden (2)
United Kingdom (5)
Singapore (7)
United States of America (4)
Finland (8)
Denmark (6)
Germany (9)
Ireland (10)