The world's 10 smartest companies are all in the US and China

Once again, the US dominates an examination of the smartest future-focused companies, but Chinese sci-tech superstars are making gains. MIT Technology Review released its list of the 50 Smartest Companies of 2017 in June. This annual list is the publication editors' "best guess as to which firms will be the dominant companies of the future" and, indeed, many of them are sitting comfortably in that position in the present. There are certainly some usual suspects featured in the full 50 – household tech names such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon all get their billing. But this is about brains, not just brawn (where brawn equates to multinational might and eyewatering revenues, in this case).