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GII 2022 at a glance: The Global Innovation Index 2022 captures the innovation ecosystem performance of 132 economies and tracks the most recent... 4

Global leaders in innovation in 2022 5

Global Innovation Index 2022 rankings 6

Innovation performance at different income levels, 2022 7

Global Innovation Tracker Dashboard 8

Key takeaways 9

GII 2022 results: The GII reveals the most innovative economies in the world, ranking the innovation performance of 132 economies 12

The GII 2022 innovation leaders 13

A changing global innovation landscape 16

Innovation overperformers 17

The persistent regional innovation divide 19

Creating balanced and efficient innovation ecosystems 24

Conclusion 25

Table 1. 10 best-ranked economies by income group (rank) 17

Table 2. Innovation Achievers in 2022: Income group, region and years as an innovation achiever 19

Table 3. Heatmap: GII 2022 rankings overall and by innovation pillar 21

Table 4. GII 2022 rankings in Sub-Saharan Africa 23

Figure 1. Movement in the GII, top 10, 2018-2022 14

Figure 2. Global leaders in innovation in 2022 15

Figure 3. The positive relationship between innovation and development 18

Figure 4. Innovation input to output performance, 2022 24

Boxes

Box 1. The United States continues to lead in several key innovation indicators. Singapore, China, Hong Kong (China) and Israel follow 16

Box Tables

Box Table 1. Economies with the most top-ranked GII indicators, 2022 16