The 2022 Global Innovation Index
The main objective of the Global Innovation Index (GII) reports 2022 is to track the most recent global innovation trends against the background of an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, slowing productivity growth and other evolving challenges. The GII reports 2022 aim to provide a comprehensive and multi-dimensional measure of innovation performance for 132 economies, highlighting their innovation strengths and weaknesses. The GII reports 2022 also focus on the future of innovation-driven growth, exploring whether stagnation and low productivity growth are here to stay, or whether we are about to enter a new era where new innovation spurts – the Digital Age and the Deep Science Innovation waves – bring about an economic uplift. The GII reports 2022 offer insights and recommendations for policymakers, business leaders, innovators and researchers on how to foster innovation and leverage its potential for sustainable and inclusive development.
Top 10: The World’s Most Innovative Countries – Global Innovation Index 2022
Switzerland, U.S., Sweden, United Kingdom and the Netherlands are the world’s most-innovative economies according to WIPO’s Global Innovation Index 2022.
Top 10: Science and Technology Clusters – Global Innovation Index 2022
The GII Science and Technology Clusters are identified based on patent filings and scientific article publications, revealing areas worldwide with the highest concentration of inventors and authors. WIPO employs geocoding to accurately map these clusters. These clusters are part of the broader Global Innovation Index (GII), which assesses global innovation trends annually. The GII evaluates the innovation performance of countries, highlighting strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in innovation metrics. It incorporates approximately 80 indicators, including factors like the political environment, education, infrastructure, and knowledge creation in each economy. The GII serves as a tool for monitoring and comparing performance against economies in the same region or income group.
East Asia Takes Leading Position in Global Science & Technology Clusters on the Global Innovation Index
In the Global Innovation Index’s latest release, it was found that four of the world’s five largest science and technology clusters are located in East Asia, specifically in Japan, China (two clusters), the Republic of Korea, and the United States. This information comes from an early preview of the 2022 edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII) by WIPO. The GII assesses the innovation capabilities of about 130 countries and economies worldwide annually. In a pre-release ahead of its official launch on September 29, 2022, the GII 2022 S&T Clusters Chapter focuses on identifying regions with the highest concentration of science and technology development. The Tokyo-Yokohama cluster is the largest, followed by the Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou, Beijing, Seoul, and San Jose-San Francisco clusters. When considering population proportion, the Cambridge cluster in the United Kingdom and the Eindhoven area in the Netherlands/Belgium are the most science and technology-intensive clusters, followed by Daejon in the Republic of Korea, San Jose-San Francisco, and Oxford, UK. Local innovation clusters play a crucial role in national innovation ecosystems, fostering innovation, jobs, investments, and growth. In addition to well-established clusters in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and the Republic of Korea, new science and technology hubs are emerging in East Asia, particularly in China, as well as in other middle-income economies like Brazil, India, Iran, Türkiye, and elsewhere. WIPO Director General Daren Tang commented on these findings.
In additional findings, the United States features prominent science and technology clusters in San Jose-San Francisco, Boston-Cambridge, and New York City. In Europe, the leading clusters are located in Paris, London, and Cologne. Notably, China now boasts as many top science and technology clusters as the United States, each with 21 clusters. Germany hosts 10 such clusters, while Japan has five. The 2022 cluster rankings saw significant increases in several regions compared to the previous year. China experienced substantial growth with clusters in Zhengzhou (+15 positions), Qingdao (+12), and Xiamen (+12) showing remarkable progress. Other notable increases were seen in Berlin (+4) in Germany, Istanbul (+4) in Türkiye, Kanazawa (+4) in Japan, Ankara (+3) in Türkiye, Daegu (+3) in the Republic of Korea, and Mumbai (+3) in India.
Overview – Global Innovation Index (GII) 2022
Switzerland, the United States, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands are the world’s most-innovative economies, the GII finds, with China on the threshold of the top 10. Other emerging economies are also showing consistently strong performance, including India and Türkiye, both of which enter the top 40 for the first time. Published on 29 September 2022, the GII 2022 ranks the innovation performance of 132 countries and economies around the world. Themed “What is the future of innovation-driven growth?“, this year’s edition focuses on the effect of innovation on productivity and wellbeing of society over the coming decades.
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