The Global Innovation Index 2025 was prepared under the general direction of Daren Tang, Director General, in WIPO's IP and Innovation Ecosystems Sector led by Marco Alemán, Assistant Director General, and in the Department of Economics and Data Analytics led by Carsten Fink, Chief Economist.
The report and rankings are produced by a core team managed by Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, Head of Section, comprising Vanessa Behrens, Mario Canales (both Project Managers), Lorena Rivera León, Senior Economist, and Jeff Slee, Data Scientist, from the WIPO Composite Indicator Research Section responsible for the GII, as well as Davide Bonaglia, Oriol Gisbert-Martí (GII Fellows), Bhanuka Kirinde, Consultant, and Claire Rousseau, Intern.
Soumitra Dutta (Portulans Institute), Bruno Lanvin (Descartes Institute for the Future), Lorena Rivera León (WIPO) and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent (WIPO) serve as co-editors of the GII.
The following WIPO colleagues provided substantive inputs to GII elaboration or dissemination: Kyle Bergquist, Ryan Lamb, Bruno Le Feuvre, Anmol Kaur Grewal and Hao Zhou, all from the Department for Economics and Data Analytics as well as colleagues from the External Relations Division, the Information and Digital Outreach Division, the IP and Innovation Ecosystems Sector, the Language Division, the News and Media Division, the Printing Plant, the Regional and National Development Sector, the WIPO Office in New York, and WIPO's External Offices.
A special thank you goes to our partners at the Portulans Institute; in particular, Rafael Escalona Reynoso, Mariam Chaduneli and Sylvie Antal for their contribution. We also thank the GII Advisory Committee, the GII Industry Association Network, Academic Network and the GII Data Collaborators for their participation, as well as the Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN) team from the European Commission's Joint Research Centre – led by Michaela Saisana – that conducted the statistical audit. The report was edited by Richard Cook, Andy Platts and James Cooke at Book Now Ltd. The GII interactive data website was developed by Pere Rovira and Víctor Pascual at OneTandem.
We are grateful to the following individuals and institutions for collaborating with data requests, and without whom the Index would not be what it is:
Africa: The Big Deal: Max Cuvellier Giacomelli
BloombergNEF: Evelina Stoikou
Brand Finance: Areeb Arshad, Annie Brown, Artur Bryzghalov, Annabella Garnham, David Haigh and Thulith Perera
CB Insights: Matthew Rados and Aaron Winkler
Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University: Robert Tijssen and Alfredo Yegros
Clarivate Analytics: Joseph Brightbill and Uwe Wendland
data.ai (a Sensor Tower Company): Donny Kristianto and Nan Lu
Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
Energy Institute: Ian Jones, Ololade Osifala and Sneha Thomas
European Commission Joint Research Centre: Alexandre Canario Borrega, Jaime Lagüera González, Alberto Guidi, Panagiotis Ravanos, Michaela Saisana and Oscar Smallenbroek from COIN; and Elisabeth Nindl
GitHub: Mike Linksvayer and Kevin Xu
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM): Niels Bosma, Alicia Coduras and Aileen Ionescu-Somers
Growth Lab at Harvard University: Sebastian Bustos, Timothy Paul Cheston and Annie White
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Mauro Carrara and Egor Titovich
International Energy Agency (IEA): Nicolas Coënt, Zuzana Dobrotkova, Aidan Kennedy, Taylor Morrison and Roberta Quadrelli
International Federation of Robotics (IFR): Susanne Bieller and Nina Kutzbach
International Labour Organization (ILO): Horacio Barría, David Bescond and Yves Perardel
International Monetary Fund (IMF): Berhe Mekonnen Beyene, Hector Carcel-Villanova, Esha Chhabra, Eric Roland Metreau, Andrea Quevedo and Miguel Segoviano
International Organization for Standardization (ISO): Laurent Charlet and Cristina Draghici
International Telecommunication Union (ITU): Nehal Desai, Thierry Geiger, Esperanza Magpantay, Nathan Menthon, Martin Schaaper and Daniel Vertesy
International Union of Railways (UIC): Michele Gesualdi and Bertrand Minary
IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science: Murray Aitken and Roland Alexander
LSEG Data & Analytics
Moody's Analytics: Renato Ferrigno, Kirill Katschura, Santhosh Metri and Sasha Uvarova
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA GISS): Reto Ruedy
National Institutes of Health: Kris Wetterstrand
Omdia: David Hancock
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): Fernando Galindo-Rueda, Miyako Ikeda, Guillaume Kpodar, Daniel Sanchez-Serra and Fabien Verger
PitchBook Data, Inc.: Charlie Farber, Sydney Glander, Nalin Patel and Alexandra Watson
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC): Kamlesh Balasubramanian and Shreeta Sen
QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd: Andrew MacFarlane and Samuel Wong
Red de Indicadores de Ciencia y Tecnología (RICYT): Rodolfo Barrere and Laura Trama
S&P Global Market Intelligence: Mohsen Bonakdarpour and Karen Campbell
SCImago: Félix de Moya Anegón
Statistics Netherlands: Klaas De Vries
The Conference Board: Erik Lundh and Dana Peterson
Times Higher Education: Phil Baty and Billy Wong
Trade Data Monitor LLC: C. Donald Brasher Jr., John Miller, Maria Vretenicic and Altan Yurdakul
TU Wien: Karl Rupp
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): Adolfo Gustavo Imhof, Olivier Labé, Oscar Milafu Onam, Rohan Pathirage, José Pessoa and Yanhong Zhang
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO): Fernando Cantú Bazaldua
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division
United Nations Public Administration Network (UNPAN)
World Bank: Parul Agarwal, Jean-François Arvis, Tony Fujs, Aart Kraay, Hiroko Maeda, Frederic Meunier, Florina Pirlea, Jorge Luis Rodriguez Meza, Rubena Sukaj, Daria Ulybina and Christina Wiederer
World Economic Forum: Ricky Li
World Federation of Exchanges: Mihaela Croitoru
World Health Organization (WHO): Richard Johnston
World Trade Organization (WTO): Barbara Carmelina D'Andrea Adrian, Shradha Bhatia, Yu Dayong, Monia Snoussi-Mimouni and Janvier Usanase
ZookNIC Inc: Matthew Zook