The Global Innovation Index (GII) ranks the innovation performance of some 139 economies around the world, based on 80+ indicators.
It has been published by WIPO since 2007, and is an invaluable reference for countries wanting to develop innovation and economic policy strategies and a tool for improving innovation metrics.
Global Innovation Index 2025
Executive Version
Author(s): World Intellectual Property Organization; Publication year: 2025
The Executive Version of the Global Innovation Index 2025 provides key highlights and results presented in the full report. The GII 2025 reveals who is leading in global innovation, ranking the innovation performance of 139 economies and highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. In addition, it identifies the world’s top 100 science and technology clusters.
Global Innovation Index 2025: Innovation at a Crossroads
Author(s): World Intellectual Property Organization; Publication year: 2025
The Global Innovation Index 2025 reveals innovation systems at a crossroads, where breakthrough technologies in AI and quantum computing advance rapidly while investment growth slows and collaborative models evolve to address global challenges. Tracking the most recent global innovation trends, the GII captures a moment of recalibration where R&D growth has slowed, venture capital activity has moderated with cautious early-stage funding, and patenting gains remain modest, even as collaboration grows through networked ecosystems and multi-stakeholder platforms.
Global Innovation Index 2024
Executive Version
Author(s): World Intellectual Property Organization; Publication year: 2024
The Executive Version of the Global Innovation Index 2024 provides key highlights and results presented in the full report. The GII 2024 reveals who is leading in global innovation, ranking the innovation performance of 133 economies and highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. In addition, it identifies the world’s top 100 science and technology clusters.
Global Innovation Index 2024, 17th Edition
Unlocking the Promise of Social Entrepreneurship
Author(s): World Intellectual Property Organization, Soumitra Dutta, Bruno Lanvin, Lorena Rivera León, Sacha Wunsch-Vincent; 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. The thematic focus of the 2024 edition is social entrepreneurship. It looks at how a flurry of new ventures are finding innovative solutions directly addressing critical societal issues. Examples drawn from around the world showcase successful examples of social entrepreneurship, helping guide innovation policymakers and support schemes to better scale social entrepreneurship ventures for maximum systemic impact.
Global Innovation Index 2023
Executive Summary
Author(s): WIPO; Publication year: 2023
The GII 2023 Executive Summary provides key highlights and results presented in the full GII 2023: Innovation in the face of uncertainty report. The GII 2023 reveals who is leading in global innovation, ranking the innovation performance of 132 economies and highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. In addition, it identifies the world’s top 100 science and technology clusters.
Global Innovation Index 2023, 16th Edition
Innovation in the face of uncertainty
Author(s): WIPO; Publication year: 2023
The Global Innovation Index 2023 (GII) takes the pulse of innovation against a background of an economic and geopolitical environment fraught with uncertainty. Tracking the most recent global innovation trends, the GII finds that – despite a climate of disquiet and a decline in risk capital investment – opportunities abound as a result of the incipient Digital Age and Deep Science innovation waves. At its core, the GII 2023 reveals who is leading in global innovation, ranking the innovation performance of 132 economies and highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. In addition, it identifies the world’s top 100 science and technology clusters. The GII is a “tool for action” regarding innovation policy. Governments around the world have used the GII to benchmark innovation performance, perfect innovation metrics and, ultimately, to shape evidence-based innovation policymaking. In the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), since 2019, the GII has been recognized by the United Nations General Assembly to be a benchmark for measuring innovation, including more recently in a post-pandemic environment.
Global Innovation Index 2022, 15th Edition
Executive Summary
Author(s): WIPO; Publication year: 2022
The Global Innovation Index 2022 (GII) tracks global innovation trends against the background of an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, slowing productivity growth and other evolving challenges. The GII reveals the most innovative economies in the world, ranking the innovation performance of 132 economies, highlighting their innovation strengths and weaknesses, and pinpointing any gaps in their innovation metrics. This 2022 edition of the GII focuses on the effect of innovation on productivity and wellbeing of society over the coming decades.
Global Innovation Index 2022, 15th Edition
What is the future of innovation driven growth?
Author(s): WIPO; Publication year: 2022
The Global Innovation Index 2022 (GII) tracks global innovation trends against the background of an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, slowing productivity growth and other evolving challenges. The GII reveals the most innovative economies in the world, ranking the innovation performance of 132 economies, highlighting their innovation strengths and weaknesses, and pinpointing any gaps in their innovation metrics. This 2022 edition of the GII focuses on the effect of innovation on productivity and wellbeing of society over the coming decades.
Global Innovation Index 2021, 14th Edition
Executive Summary
Author(s): WIPO; Publication year: 2021
The Global Innovation Index 2021 takes the pulse of the most recent global innovation trends and ranks the innovation ecosystem performance of 132 economies, while highlighting innovation strengths and weaknesses and particular gaps in innovation metrics. In its new Global Innovation Tracker section, the report draws 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.
Global Innovation Index 2021, 14th Edition
Tracking Innovation through the COVID-19 Crisis
Author(s): WIPO; Publication year: 2021
The Global Innovation Index 2021 takes the pulse of the most recent global innovation trends and ranks the innovation ecosystem performance of 132 economies, while highlighting innovation strengths and weaknesses and particular gaps in innovation metrics. In its new Global Innovation Tracker section, the report draws 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.
Find out more: Press release | Home Page | Infographic
Global Innovation Index 2020 - KEY FINDINGS
Author(s): Cornell University, INSEAD, WIPO; Publication year: 2020
Who Will Finance Innovation?
Global Innovation Index 2020 - Executive version
Who Will Finance Innovation?
Author(s): Cornell University, INSEAD, WIPO; Publication year: 2020
.
Global Innovation Index 2020
Who Will Finance Innovation?
Author(s): Cornell University, INSEAD, WIPO; Publication year: 2020
The Global Innovation Index 2020 provides detailed metrics about the innovation performance of 131 countries and economies around the world. Its 80 indicators explore a broad vision of innovation, including political environment, education, infrastructure and business sophistication. The 2020 edition sheds light on the state of innovation financing by investigating the evolution of financing mechanisms for entrepreneurs and other innovators, and by pointing to progress and remaining challenges – including in the context of the economic slowdown induced by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis.
Find out more: Press release | Home page | Infographic – China
Global Innovation Index 2019 - KEY FINDINGS
Author(s): Cornell University, INSEAD, WIPO; Publication year: 2019
Creating Healthy Lives—The Future of Medical Innovation
Global Innovation Index 2019 - Executive version
Creating Healthy Lives — The Future of Medical Innovation
Author(s): Cornell University, INSEAD, WIPO; Publication year: 2019
The Global Innovation Index 2019 provides detailed metrics about the innovation performance of 129 countries and economies around the world. Its 80 indicators explore a broad vision of innovation, including political environment, education, infrastructure and business sophistication. The GII 2019 analyzes the medical innovation landscape of the next decade, looking at how technological and non-technological medical innovation will transform the delivery of healthcare worldwide. It also explores the role and dynamics of medical innovation as it shapes the future of healthcare, and the potential influence this may have on economic growth. Chapters of the report provide more details on this year’s theme from academic, business, and particular country perspectives from leading experts and decision makers.
Global Innovation Index 2019
Creating Healthy Lives — The Future of Medical Innovation
Author(s): Cornell University, INSEAD, WIPO; Publication year: 2019
The Global Innovation Index 2019 provides detailed metrics about the innovation performance of 129 countries and economies around the world. Its 80 indicators explore a broad vision of innovation, including political environment, education, infrastructure and business sophistication. The GII 2019 analyzes the medical innovation landscape of the next decade, looking at how technological and non-technological medical innovation will transform the delivery of healthcare worldwide. It also explores the role and dynamics of medical innovation as it shapes the future of healthcare, and the potential influence this may have on economic growth. Chapters of the report provide more details on this year’s theme from academic, business, and particular country perspectives from leading experts and decision makers.
Find out more: Press release | Home page
Global Innovation Index 2018
Energizing the World with Innovation
Author(s): Cornell University, INSEAD, WIPO; Publication year: 2018
The Global Innovation Index 2018 provides detailed metrics about the innovation performance of 126 countries and economies around the world. Its 80 indicators explore a broad vision of innovation, including political environment, education, infrastructure and business sophistication. The GII 2018 analyses the energy innovation landscape of the next decade and identifies possible breakthroughs in fields such as energy production, storage, distribution, and consumption. It also looks at how breakthrough innovation occurs at the grassroots level and describes how small-scale renewable systems are on the rise.
Find out more: Press release | Global rankings | Videos on YouTube | Photos (on Flickr) | Social media kit | GII in the news | Launch event flyer | GII events
Global Innovation Index 2017
Innovation Feeding the World
Author(s): Cornell University, INSEAD, WIPO; Publication year: 2017
The Global Innovation Index provides detailed metrics about the innovation performance of 127 countries and economies around the world. Its 81 indicators explore a broad vision of innovation, including political environment, education, infrastructure and business sophistication. This year’s report reviews the state of innovation in agriculture and food systems across sectors and geographies. Chapters of the report provide more details on this year’s theme from academic, business, and particular country perspectives from leading experts and decision makers.
Find out more: Press release | Global rankings | Videos | Launch event photos
Global Innovation Index 2016
Winning with Global Innovation
Author(s): WIPO, Cornell University, INSEAD; Publication year: 2016
The Global Innovation Index ranks the innovation performance of 128 countries and economies around the world, based on 82 indicators. This edition explores the impact of innovation-oriented policies on economic growth and development. High-income and developing countries alike are seeking innovation-driven growth through different strategies. Some countries are successfully improving their innovation capacity, while others still struggle.
Find out more: Press release | Videos and infographics
Global Innovation Index 2015
Effective Innovation Policies for Development
Author(s): WIPO, Cornell University, INSEAD; Publication year: 2015
The Global Innovation Index ranks the innovation performance of 141 countries and economies around the world, based on 79 indicators. This edition explores the impact of innovation-oriented policies on economic growth and development. High-income and developing countries alike are seeking innovation-driven growth through different strategies. Some countries are successfully improving their innovation capacity, while others still struggle.
Find out more: Launch event | Press release | Videos and infographics
Global Innovation Index 2014
The Human Factor in Innovation
Author(s): WIPO, Cornell University, INSEAD; Publication year: 2014
The Global Innovation Index ranks the innovation performance of 143 countries and economies around the world, based on 81 indicators. This edition explores the role of the individuals and teams behind the innovation process. It sheds light on different aspects of human capital required to achieve innovation, including skilled labor; the intersection of human, financial and technological capital; talent retention; and the mobilization of highly educated people.
Find out more: Launch event | Press release | Videos and infographics
Global Innovation Index 2013
The Local Dynamics of Innovation
Author(s): WIPO, Cornell University, INSEAD; Publication year: 2013
The Global Innovation Index ranks the innovation performance of 142 countries and economies around the world, based on 84 indicators. This edition explores the impact of innovation-oriented policies on economic growth and development. High-income and developing countries alike are seeking innovation-driven growth through different strategies. Some countries are successfully improving their innovation capacity, while others still struggle.
Find out more: Press release
Global Innovation Index 2012
Stronger Innovation Linkages for Global Growth
Author(s): WIPO, INSEAD; Publication year: 2012
The Global Innovation Index ranks the innovation performance of 141 countries and economies around the world, based on 84 indicators. This edition explores the impact of innovation-oriented policies on economic growth and development. High-income and developing countries alike are seeking innovation-driven growth through different strategies. Some countries are successfully improving their innovation capacity, while others still struggle.
Find out more: Press release
Global Innovation Index 2011
Accelerating Growth and Development
Author(s): INSEAD; Publication year: 2011
The Global Innovation Index ranks the innovation performance of 125 countries and economies around the world, based on 80 indicators. This edition explores the impact of innovation-oriented policies on economic growth and development. High-income and developing countries alike are seeking innovation-driven growth through different strategies. Some countries are successfully improving their innovation capacity, while others still struggle.
Find out more: Press release
