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Entrepreneurial Clusters in China and Mexico –implications for Competitiveness84 NOTES: The following explanations are needed regarding the creation of the 100 base indexes:• For the Index of Education of the World Bank: 100 is the maximum possible in the index,in this case that is 10.• For the number of patents created in the year of the US Patent and Trademark Office: 100is the maximum of patents registered by the countries included in the sample, which in thiscase was USA with 77,501 patents.• For the Capacity of Innovation of the World Bank: 100 is the maximum possible, whichfor this index is 10.• For the public expenditure in education as % of the GDP of the UNDP: the maximum investmentin education inside the sample is Mexico with 25.6 %, which is taken as base 100.• For the Indicator of the Social Knowledge of the World Bank: 100 is the maximum possible,which for this index is 10.• For the Index of Global Competitiveness of the Economic World Forum: 100 is the maximumpossible, which for this index is 7.• For the Levels of Productivity of the International Labor Organization: 248, the maximuminside the sample for productivity, is the base 100. In this index there was no data for India,so the blank was filled with information taken from the Global Competitiveness Report. Indiagot a score of 4.2 (in a scale from 0 to 7) in the Pay and Productivity variable in the GlobalCompetitiveness Report. Scaling this number to the base 100, it would be 60.0 points.• For the Ranking on easiness for doing business of the Doing business of the World Bank:The country ranked number 1 became 100, so the position we adopted the formula wherethe standardized index was [100-0.546(n-1)] where is n the position occupied by the countryanalyzed and 0.546 was the result of 100 divided by 183, which is the total number of rankedcountries.• For the Number of days to open business of the World Bank: We took the range [1-152],because 152 was the maximum number of days inside the sample (Brazil). One gave 100 tothe minimal value and reduced a factor of 0.657 (100/152) for each additional day.• For the Index of Economic Incentive and Institutional Regime of the World Bank: 100 isthe maximum possible, which in this index is 10.• For Global Entrepreneurship from the Friedrich’s Global Index Schiller University: 100 isthe maximum possible, which in this index is 1.• For the UNCTD’s Foreign Direct Investment inflows: the maximum level of foreign investmentinside the sample is 70.98 % of the Netherlands, which is taken as the base 100.GCG GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY - UNIVERSIA ENERO-ABRIL 2012 VOL. 6 NUM. 1 ISSN: 1988-7116pp: 55-90