Global Innovation Index
The 19th edition of WIPO's Global Innovation Index (GII) will be released on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, during a hybrid event from 13:30 to 15:30 CEST (Geneva time), featuring ministers, business leaders, and innovation experts. Key findings of the GII 2026 will be presented, followed by a panel discussion on "Powering Entrepreneurs at the Frontier of Science".
The hybrid event will be held in the WIPO Conference Hall at WIPO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and will also be streamed live on WIPO's website. Please register for in-person attendance. The working language will be English with simultaneous interpretation in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish. More details are available in the flyer and agenda.
Launch of the 2026 GII Ranking of World's Top 100 Innovation Clusters: September 8, 2026
The different metrics that the GII offers help to monitor performance and benchmark developments against economies within the same region or income group.
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Global Innovation Index 2026: Powering Entrepreneurs at the Frontier of Science
September 8, 2026 - Launch of the 2026 GII Ranking of World's Top 100 Innovation Clusters
September 29, 2026
Release of the Global Innovation Index 2026 “Powering Entrepreneurs at the Frontier of Science"
Launch of the Global Innovation Index 2025
Current edition: Innovation at a Crossroads
The Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025 ranks the most innovative economies and reveals the world's top 100 innovation clusters. It highlights global innovation trends based on investment patterns, technological progress, adoption rates, and socioeconomic impacts.
Previous editions of the Global Innovation Index
2024 – Unlocking the Promise of Social Entrepreneurship
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2024
The GII 2024 reveals who is leading globally in innovation, ranking the innovation performance of 133 economies and highlighting their strengths and weaknesses.
2023 – Innovation in the face of uncertainty
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2023
The Global Innovation Index 2023 (GII) takes the pulse of global innovation trends against the background of an economic environment fraught with uncertainty.
2022 – What is the future of innovation-driven growth?
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2022
The GII 2022 provided a stance on whether stagnation and low productivity growth are here to stay, or whether we are about to enter a new era, where new innovation spurts like the Digital Age and the Deep Science Innovation waves bring about an economic uplift.
2021 - Tracking Innovation through the COVID-19 Crisis
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2021
The GII 2021 drew on a select set of indicators, including the effects on research and development expenditures or access to innovation finance, to provide a perspective on the impact of COVID-19 on global innovation performance.
GII Innovation Insights
Each month, we take a deep dive into one determinant of innovation that constitutes the Global Innovation Index (GII), often together with the GII data collaborators. In this blog, we unveil unique Innovation Insights, untangling the complexities, and driving forces of the most or up-and-coming innovation nations.
Software Collaboration Hits 5 Billion GitHub Commits
April 30, 2026
GII iLens Innovation Data Lab
The GII iLens Innovation Data Lab pilots next-generation innovation indicators using big data, web scraping, and spatial analytics—strengthening the GII while expanding the global toolbox for measuring innovation, in underexplored but policy-relevant areas like innovation finance, startups, and deep science.
GII Innovation talks
Step into the world of innovation trends and gain practical insights on what drives successful innovation. In each episode, we ask top-notch experts from various industries to unravel valuable perspectives on topical innovation insights, igniting inspiration to shape the future.
Inside Spain’s Innovation Policy and Strategies with Teresa Riesgo
March 25, 2025
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Nigeria’s Startup Capital Lagos
January 15, 2025
Young People Are Innovating for Change: Scientist and Inventor Gitanjali Rao
APRIL 22, 2024
Shooting for the Stars: Aisha Bowe on Bridging the Gender Gap in STEM
October 21, 2023
GII Innovation measurement at the regional, provincial or city level
The GII support better innovation measurement and policy at the sub-regional (regional, provincial or city) level. The Innovation cluster ranking of the Global Innovation Index identifies the top geographical areas around the world with the highest density of inventors, scientific authors and venture capitalist deals. In turn, the WIPO toolkit on “Enabling Innovation Measurement at the Sub-National Level” supports WIPO member states wishing to construct sub-national innovation metrics or indices, by discussing (i) which GII indicators are fit for purpose at the sub-national level; (ii) the existing sub-national innovation indices of Brazil, China, Colombia, the EU, India and Viet Nam and (iii) novel big innovation data fit for measuring local innovation.
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Global Release of the World's Top 100 Innovation Clusters
December 12, 2025
About the Global Innovation Index
Since its inception in 2007, the GII has shaped the innovation measurement agenda and become a cornerstone of economic policymaking, with an increasing number of governments systematically analyzing their annual GII results and designing policy responses to improve their performance.
Published anually, the core of the GII provides performance measures and ranks close to 140 economies on their innovation ecosystems. The Index is built on a rich dataset – the collection of 81 indicators from international public and private sources – going beyond the traditional measures of innovation since the definition of innovation has broadened.
In addition, the GII identifies the world’s top 100 science and technology clusters.
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General enquiries
General enquiries relating to the GII, including from students, academics, journalists and others, may be sent to the GII Team at WIPO. GII-related communications from Member States relating to innovation performance, the state of their economy’s innovation metrics or related GII assistance requests should be directed to the Assistant Director General, IP and Innovation Ecosystems Sector, World Intellectual Property Organization 34, chemin des Colombettes CH-1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland and the GII Team at WIPO.