The global innovation center is moving eastward to Asia, among which China's innovation performance is particularly outstanding, and it has established its position as a global innovation leader. In 20021year, the World Intellectual Property Organization released the global innovation index, and China ranked 12, making it the only middle-income economy to enter the top 15.
Domestic patents, utility models, designs, trademark applications and other nine important indicators ranked first. China also has 19 world-class science and technology clusters, with Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou and Beijing ranking second and third respectively. In 20021year, China ranked first, third and tenth in PCT patent, Madrid trademark and Hague design application respectively.
Global innovation index is a detailed quantitative tool, which helps global decision makers to better understand how to stimulate innovation activities, thus promoting economic growth and human development. The Global Innovation Index ranks 126 economies according to 80 indicators, including the application rate of intellectual property rights, mobile application development, education expenditure, scientific and technological publications, etc.
The Global Innovation Index (GII) provides detailed indicators of the innovation performance of 127 countries and economies around the world. The index is the result of the cooperation between Cornell University, Insead and WIPO. GII has gained international recognition, which is not only the main reference to measure innovation ability, but also the "operating tool" for decision makers.
In 2020, the top ten countries are Switzerland, Sweden, the United States, Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Singapore, Germany and South Korea. Compared with 20 19, China's ranking remains unchanged at 14. China ranked 1 1.