The Innovation Index 2008 Performance

The Innovation Index 2008 Performance
Top 20 Innovators	Ticker	31-Dec-07	31-Dec-08	% Change
3M Company	MMM	84.32	57.54	-31.76%
Amazon.com	AMZN	92.64	51.28	-44.65%
America Movil	AMX	61.39	30.99	-49.52%
Apple	AAPL	198.08	85.35	-56.91%
AT&T	T	41.16	28.50	-30.76%
Best Buy	BBY	52.51	28.11	-46.47%
Cisco Systems	CSCO	27.07	16.30	-39.79%
Costco Wholesale	COST	69.60	52.50	-24.57%
eBay	EBAY	33.19	13.96	-57.94%
General Electric	GE	36.74	16.20	-55.91%
Google	GOOG	691.48	307.65	-55.51%
Hewlett-Packard	HPQ	50.48	36.29	-28.11%
Intel	INTC	26.50	14.66	-44.68%
IBM	IBM	107.69	84.16	-21.85%
Merck	MRK	57.61	30.40	-47.23%
McDonald's	MCD	58.51	62.19	6.29%
Microsoft	MSFT	35.46	19.44	-45.18%
NIKE	NKE	64.00	51.00	-20.31%
Research In Motion	RIMM	113.40	40.58	-64.22%
Proctor & Gamble	PG	73.05	61.82	-15.37%
The Innovation Index		108.27	66.35	-38.72%
S&P 500	^GSPC	1,468.36	903.25	-38.49%
Dow Jones	^DJI	13,264.82	8,776.39	-33.84%
NASDAQ	^IXIC	2,652.28	1,577.03	-40.54%
McDonald's Corporation is the only innovator out of the top 20 innovators that had a positive stock performance in an otherwise tough 2008. McDonald's has achieved an amazing feat that will be cherished for a long time. 8 out of the Top 20 Innovators finished averaging better performance than the S&P 500. Assumptions and Disclosures: *Assumes equal investment in each Innovator of the Innovation Index
*Innovation Index Fund is closed and ended much lower than the Innovation Index
*2009 Innovation Index will be announced the week of Jan 12, 2009
*Innovation Index Group will relaunch in 2009, without management of any fund, as an investment research and analysis company.

Selected references:
Leading eBook on Creativity and Innovation in Business
Creativity and Innovation Best Practices
Creativity and Innovation Case Studies
The Innovation Index
Top 50 innovative companies in the world