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This study offers suggestions that may clarify the relations between innovation and a country’s national character, and help design solutions to constantly shifting social problems at the individual and organizational level. Specifically, it calculates a signal-to-noise ratio by using the global innovation index （GII） published by the World Intellectual Property Organization （WIPO） to indicate the state of innovation in each country as a signal and classifying national characteristics as factors that can and cannot be controlled at the national level. By use of this metric it was possible to show that the actions needed to raise the GII differ according to national character. This study accordingly offers countries or organizations suggestions for policy design.
