Global Innovation Index 2015

Who is leading
innovation?

Every year, the Global Innovation Index

ranks the innovation performance of
more than 140 countries and economies
around the world. Each country is scored
according to 79 indicators. #GII2015

TOP PERFORMERS PER REGION*

EUROPE
Switzerland
UK
Sweden

CENTRAL &
SOUTHERN
ASIA

NORTHERN
AMERICA
USA
Canada

India
Kazakhstan
Sri Lanka

NORTHERN
AFRICA &
WESTERN
ASIA
Israel
Cyprus
Saudi Arabia

LATIN
AMERICA & THE
CARIBBEAN

SOUTH EAST
ASIA &
OCEANIA
Singapore
Hong Kong
(China)
Republic of
Korea

SUBSAHARAN
AFRICA
Mauritius
South Africa
Senegal

Chile
Costa Rica
Mexico

TOP INNOVATORS BY INCOME GROUP*

High income

Upper middle

1
3
5
4
USA
Switzerland 2
Sweden
Netherlands
United Kingdom

USA

UK

Japan

China

1
China

Brazil

India

3
2
Hungary
Malaysia

1
3
2
Armenia
Republic of
Moldova Viet Nam

LEADERS IN
INNOVATION
QUALITY
Scientific
publications quality
Patent families

Low income

Lower middle

1
Kenya

3
2
Uganda
Mozambique

INNOVATION INDEX CLIMBERS

Countries that improved their innovation

performance ranking compared to last year.

Tajikistan
+23

Sri Lanka

+20

+19

Montenegro
+18

University rankings

High income

Philippines

Viet Nam

+17

Middle income
www.globalinnovationindex.org

WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (WIPO). SOURCE: GLOBALINNOVATIONINDEX.ORG. DESIGN: LARGENETWORK.

* Excluding countries with high numbers of missing data points