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. To drill further into the data behind the GII, visit the GII Innovation Ecosystems & Data Explorer.
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Advisory Committee
- Industry Association Network
- Academic Network
- The GII Partners
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The Global Innovation Index 2025 provides comprehensive analysis of innovation ecosystems across 139 economies, tracking global innovation trends through investment patterns, technological progress, adoption rates, and socioeconomic impacts.
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The Global Innovation Index 2025 Tracker takes the pulse of innovation against a backdrop of global realignments, sluggish economic conditions, as well as ongoing technological breakthroughs and evolving regulatory frameworks that shape how ideas emerge, spread, and scale globally.
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The GII unveils the world's innovation leaders and measures the performance of 139 economies.
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The GII reveals the top innovation clusters world-wide, by size and intensity. Innovation clusters – whether innovation-driven cities or regions – form the beating heart of national innovation systems. These hubs unite top universities, researchers, inventors, venture capitalists and R&D firms in driving forward breakthrough ideas.
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The following monitoring tools help users to track and interpret innovation performance metrics for 139 economies.
- Appendix I – Conceptual and measurement framework of the Global Innovation Index
- Appendix II - Joint Research Centre (JRC) statistical audit of the 2025 Global Innovation Index
- Appendix III - Sources and definitions
- Appendix IV – Global Innovation Index innovation cluster methodology
- Bibliography
- Copyright