Yes, sorry, I translated the business about attitudes to mean that more people were seeking a useful education, by percentage, and therefore there was a certain superiority. In any case, you are mistaken, the headquarters is Geneva:
eu.st.com
I did not see anything about being number 5 this year, but you may be right. They claim that the R&D is spread out globally, but I suppose you might be right about France and Italy. The workforce figures are interesting, though:
jobs.st.com
About 17k are European, about 10k are Asian, about 3500 are American, and about 6k are "Meditteranean", presumably North African and Middle Eastern. |