Switzerland Remains World's Most Innovative Country

(WIPO, September 02, 2020)

For a record 10th-straight year, Switzerland ranked first in the annual Global Innovation Index (GII), published by Cornell University, INSEAD and WIPO, followed by Sweden, the US, the UK and the Netherlands. Switzerland displayed a strong and solid performance across all GII seven areas and consistently ranked among the top 3 in Patents by origin, PCT patents by origin, scientific and technical articles, high-tech manufacturing, and intellectual property receipts. Switzerland has been regularly topping the index since 2011 – an extraordinary feat attesting to the strength of the small Alpine nation's innovation ecosystem and the quality of its public higher education and research institutions.