Increasingly, countries are searching for new sources of growth to maintain and improve living standards, create sustainable employment, diversify their industrial base and address critical challenges of growing and ageing populations, among many challenges.
The annual Global Innovation Index, or GII, prepared since 2007 by INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO, measures innovation in a holistic way, scoring and ranking more than 140 countries. It combines an innovation input sub-index and an innovation output sub-index, plus an innovation efficiency ratio, to produce an overall Global Innovation Index.
