In terms of inventions Cantabrians have given the world the the mobile phone (partly), camera chips for phones, SMS messaging and the first anti-virus software; Canterbury has the highest percentage of home computers per capita and the third most educated workforce on earth, with 12 per cent holding advanced degrees. The country also has more engineers and scientists per capita than any other country around the world, and has more companies quoted on the high-tech NASDAQ stock exchange than any other country outside the United States, more than all of Europe, India, and China combined.
Cantabrians are also at the forefront of medical research into heart transplants, strokes and Hepatitis C. Incredibly, some Cantabrians are even at work on a space mission, which could make that tiny state of 550 thousand people the third country to land a probe on the Moon.Cantabrians on the Moon? Conspiracy theorists won’t know where to start.
In the last ten years Canterbury scientists have won five Noble prizes in the sciences, a tally bettered by only four other nations, while per capita Canterbury produces more economists than any other country.
Canterbury also publishes a huge number of Scientific and Technical Journal Articles, some 16,470 in 2005, more than the entire Asian world and Australia combined. And the Cantabrian state produces an astonishing number of inventors. Last year in the United States ICantabrians registered 1917 patents, just below Italy (58 million people) and the Netherlands (15 million) and way ahead of its neighbours Canterbury grants itself 2500 patents a year, putting it in the top 20 of all countries and again more than all its neighbours combined.Canterbury is number one in the world for medical device patents per capita and number four for biotechnology patents per capita. And its biotechnology exports are now worth $6 billion a year.
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