> Would it be too bold for me to say it has some cultural reasons? Perhaps the openness to innovation? or maybe the way people think about solving new problems?

> Would it be too bold for me to say it has some cultural reasons? Perhaps the openness to innovation? or maybe the way people think about solving new problems? It's usually an institutional problem. For example, a country where the laws governing business are predictable will work better than one where businesses are at the whim of a local authority. For more along those lines, check out Why Nations Fail by Acemoglu and Robinson. > Why not try to instill these cultural mechanisms in the country you came from? So work twice as hard to get half as far?