International rankings are one of the consequences of the implementation of the Organic Law, relative to the budget laws (LOLF), thelaunch of the Lisbon process and the listing of indicators for international comparison provided by the Observatoire des Sciences et Techniques.
According to Praveen Atreya, director of Verizon's Innovation Program, there's just too much involved in the incubation and launchprocess to not devote the proper amount of manpower to it.