When I looked at the numbers and the measurements it was not necessary the case at all. For example, the author used the ratio of patents/GDP or number of new enterprises/total number of businesses as indicators for entrepreneurship, but who says there must be more patents when the GDP becomes larger? Or I can not see why the number of new enterprises should increase when the population remains relatively stable and the number of businesses is already big. They are the normal phenomenon of a mature economy and not necessary showing a decline in entrepreneurship and innovation.