{"id":346461,"date":"2025-09-18T15:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=346461"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:18:04","slug":"global-innovation-index-gii-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/global-innovation-index-gii-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Recently, the World Intellectual Property Organisation\u2019s (WIPO) published Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025.<\/p>\n<h2>About the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_346462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-346462\" style=\"width: 441px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-346462\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot_18-9-2025_11404_indianexpress.com_.jpeg?resize=441%2C373&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot_18-9-2025_11404_indianexpress.com_.jpeg?resize=300%2C254&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot_18-9-2025_11404_indianexpress.com_.jpeg?w=759&amp;ssl=1 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-346462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: IE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Published by: The Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025 is published<strong> annually<\/strong> by the<strong> World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It<strong> evaluates 139 economies<\/strong> using more than 80 indicators measuring innovation inputs and outputs.<\/li>\n<li>The index tracks trends in<strong> research and development (R&amp;D), technology creation, market sophistication, and institutional performance.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Global R&amp;D growth slowed to 2.9 percent in 2024<\/strong> and is projected to decline further to 2.3 percent in 2025.<\/li>\n<li>This represents the lowest level of R&amp;D growth since the 2010 financial crisis.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rankings<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Switzerland remains the most innovative country in the world according to the GII 2025.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1403\" data-end=\"1450\"><strong>Sweden ranks second with a GII score of 62.6.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1453\" data-end=\"1510\">The<strong> United States ranks third<\/strong> with a GII score of 61.7.<\/li>\n<li><strong>China enters and strengthens its position in the global top ten<\/strong> by leading in patents and technology outputs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Regional Innovation Highlights<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Europe <strong>leads as the most innovative region,<\/strong> with 15 countries in the global top 25, including six in the top 10.<\/li>\n<li><strong>North America remains strong,<\/strong> led by the<strong> United States at rank three and Canada at rank seventeen.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Oceania continue to emerge as global innovation hubs,<\/strong> with six economies in the top 25.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About India\u2019s Rank in the GII 2025<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India<strong> ranks thirty-eighth globally in the GII 2025, moving up from rank forty-eight in 2020.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>India holds the <strong>first position among lower-middle-income economies<\/strong> and the <strong>first position in the Central and Southern Asia region.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>India <strong>performs best in Knowledge and Technology Outputs, where it ranks twenty-second.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>India also<strong> performs relatively well in Market Sophistication, where it ranks thirty-eighth.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>India <strong>shows weaker performance in Business Sophistication (rank sixty-four), Infrastructure (rank sixty-one), and Institutions (rank fifty-eight).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>India ranks <strong>thirty-eighth globally,<\/strong> showing steady improvement over the last five years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India lags behind both China and the United States<\/strong> but continues to climb the innovation rankings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Recently, the World Intellectual Property Organisation\u2019s (WIPO) published Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025. About the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025 Published by: The Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025 is published annually by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). It evaluates 139 economies using more than 80 indicators measuring innovation inputs and outputs. 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