Apart from the common names, we have many large companies hailing from France, the UK, Netherlands, S Korea and Switzerland. The 1 company from Singapore is Flextronics.
One interesting thing that we could possibly to do would be to normalise the number of enterprises by the population of the countries. There have been propositions that the reason why Singapore has not been able to grow huge local enterprises is due to the small size of the domestic market. However, countries such as Finland (pop 5 mil) and Ireland (pop 6 mil) have been able to produce companies such as Nokia and CRH (a construction company). Could it be the strong hinterlands that contribute to the growth of such companies? This should be further looked at.
[Pardon the formatting issues with the table!]
| Australia 8 Austria 2 Belgium 5 Belgium 1 Brazil 5 Britain 34 Britain/Netherlands 1 Canada 14 China 29 Denmark 2 Finland 2 France 39 Germany 37 India 7 Ireland 2 Italy 10 Japan 64 | Luxembourg 1 Malaysia 1 Mexico 5 Netherlands 13 Norway 2 Poland 1 Portugal 1 Russia 5 Saudi Arabia 1 Singapore 1 South Korea 15 Spain 11 Sweden 6 Switzerland 14 Taiwan 6 Thailand 1 Turkey 1 U.S. 153 |
Source: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2008/countries/
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