图2：Unicorn Counts, as of October 7, 2025

Apple, with its founder and key staff becoming top national security priority, if it is to prosper → Tenstorrent, a Toronto-based chip manufacturer that ownership of IP provides (Hinton 2025), in Santa Clara, California, in 2024, citing a this new age. This aim should be furthered by discussion and specific recommendations). global unicorns, notwithstanding its strong scientific contributions to technology development. As shownThe knowledge-based economy era (1980-2010) (with Hong Kong included) has 166; and the “Global North,” which consists of the leading knowledge- based economies,9 has 277 in total, of which 107 are design and computer-aided manufacturing, accounted for by the 27-member European Union. respectively, as well as in supply-chain management technology, and across the board in services industries (Ciuriak 2024b). This era witnessed Global North, but global GDP growth was reasonably well distributed within that group, including proliferation of university-centred clusters. Canada, held its own in this economy, increasing its share of global GDP by 0.26 percent between 1980 and 2010. different conditions, and Canada lost out this time as its share of global GDP fell by 0.46 percent. However, the more instructive panel is the lower one, which shows that, in the post-2010 period, the of unicorns it has compared to the United States, the usual comparator. Where the usual back- North to the United States. Overall, the United States of-the-envelope ratio is about 10 percent, when increased its share of global GDP, notwithstanding it comes to unicorns, Canada has only about the rise of china, and it did so at the expense three percent the number of the United States. As the above examples show, innovation tends For the United States, the increase in its share of global GDP, excluding China, during the data-driven effects; what is not anchored leaks out. economy era amounts to US$6.45 trillion. This is an annual boost to US national income. How important → Insofar as the rise in the US share of global GDP, 9 The "Global North" includes the European Union, the United Kingdom excluding China, was due to data rent capture, and the European Free Trade Association, plus Canada and the high- income economies of the Western Pacifc Rim, namely, Australia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan; and Israel. The "Global South" includes the rest o the world economy. States would, by itself, amount to Us$314 billion, CIGI Papers No. 352 － March 2026 · Dan Ciuriak