Global Innovation Index 2021 - Tracking Innovation through the COVID-19 Crisis
UN Entity:
WIPO
SDGs:
All
Innovation Area:
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Automation & Robotics
Blockchain
Drones & Satellite Imagery
Innovation in General (incl. HCD)
Internet of Things
Mobile Phone-based Innovations
Digital Transformation
Data Innovation
The 2021 edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII) presents the latest global innovation ranking of 132 economies, relying on 81 different indicators. While tracking the most recent global innovation trends in the new Global Innovation Tracker, this edition also focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on innovation.
The GII's overall formula for measuring an economy's innovative capacity and output provides clarity for decision makers in government, business and elsewhere as they look forward to creating policies that enable their people to invent and create more efficiently.