The Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025
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The 18th edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII) was released today. Published since 2007, the GII has been a useful source of analysis for measuring innovation. Review here this TechieKat’s reports on previous editions of GII.
The GII 2025 contains the latest global innovation ranking of 130-plus economies, relying on 78 indicators. This year’s report theme is “Innovation at a Crossroads”.
The GII Innovation Ecosystems & Data Explorer 2025 showcases briefs on each economy’s performance on all indicators, highlighting its innovation strengths and areas for improvement. This year, a new filter was added that allows for the review of innovation performance by the following regions: Africa, ASEAN, European Union, Latin America, and Least Developed Countries.
- “R&D growth fell to 2.9% in 2024, a slowdown from the 4.4% increase in the year prior and the lowest growth since the financial crisis of 2010. Growth is projected by WIPO to slow further in 2025 (2.3%).
- VC [Venture Capital] investment values showed a rebound. Deal values rose 7.7% in 2024, largely driven by US-based megadeals and surging investment in generative AI. However, excluding these investments, VC value would have contracted.
- VC, which had been gradually expanding into a wider set of non-ICT sectors and emerging markets, now appears to be retreating toward its traditional core, namely the US-based AI and ICT-related investments. This fails to sustain the earlier momentum toward broader sectoral and geographic VC diversification experienced just after the COVID-19 pandemic with strong VC influx into Latin America and Africa.
- International patent filings via WIPO rebounded (+0.5%), with strong growth in the Republic of Korea (+7%), but continued declines in the US, Japan and Germany.
- Technology adoption advanced but slowed: Growth remained evident in robotics and connectivity; high-speed rail networks, a new indicator in 2025, expanded. In turn, robot and EV adoption experienced a marked slowdown.
- Socioeconomic indicators improved: labor productivity and life expectancy rose, poverty declined further”.
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Some highlights contained in the GII 2025 report are:
- The United States of America scored well in indicators such as unicorn valuation, intangible asset intensity, and software spending.
- Canada stood out in innovation inputs, ranking in the global top 10 for university-industry collaboration.
- In Latin America and the Caribbean, Chile, Brazil, and Mexico continued leading and remained in the top 60.
- Europe continues to host the highest number of innovation leaders, ranking among the top 25.
- Türkiye maintained its leadership in trademarks and industrial designs.
- South Africa performed well in global brand value and ICT services imports.
- India continued to stand out for its ICT services exports.
- Six economies from SEAO (South East Asia, East Asia, and Oceania) ranked among the top 25.
- China broke into the top 10 for the first time, showing continued strength in R&D spending, innovation outputs, and high-tech exports.
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The GII 2025 also introduced a third metric into the Ranking of World’s Top 100 Innovation Clusters methodology. This year, the metric “Venture capital (VC) deal locations”, along with the first metric focusing on the inventors’ locations listed in published patent applications under the WIPO Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), and the second metric considering the authors listed on published scientific articles, served as the basis for cluster identification.
Following this new approach, China and the United States of America continued leading the number of top innovation clusters with 24 and 22, respectively. Likewise, ten clusters entered the top 100 for the first time, including Mexico City (ranked 79), becoming the second Latin American cluster, after São Paulo (ranked 49), to make it into the top 100.
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The top ten of the global innovation ranking of GII 2025 are:
The GII 2025 regional innovation leaders for Northern America (NAC) are:
The top five GII 2025 regional innovation leaders for Latin America and the Caribbean (LCN) are:
The top five GII 2025 regional innovation leaders for Europe (EUR) are:
The top five GII 2025 regional innovation leaders for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSF) are:
The top five GII 2025 regional innovation leaders for Northern Africa and Western Asia (NAWA) are:
The top five GII 2025 regional innovation leaders for Central and Southern Asia (CSA) are:
The top five GII 2025 regional innovation leaders for South East Asia, East Asia, and Oceania (SEAO) are:
More findings of the GII 2025 regional innovation leaders for Latin America and the Caribbean by this Kat can be reviewed here (in Spanish).
Previous GII editions can be reviewed on the dedicated WIPO’s web page for the Global Innovation Index.
The second image is the Global Innovation Tracker Dashboard, the third image is Figure 1 The GII dynamo: the top 15 innovators, 2021-2025, and the fourth image is Top innovation cluster by economy or cross-border region ranked among the top 100, 2025, under a CC BY 4.0 license. WIPO (2025). Global Innovation Index 2025: Innovation at a Crossroads. Geneva: WIPO. 10.34667/tind.58864
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