Global Innovation Index 2018

The GII 2018 marks the 11th edition of the GII, and the beginning of its second decade providing data and insights gathered from tracking innovation across the globe. The GII work contributes on two important fronts: By collecting innovation metrics, it assists countries to better assess their innovation performance; and by identifying strengths and challenges, it helps empower countries to improve their innovation policies by leveraging strengths and overcoming challenges. By pursuing these two objectives, the GII has helped to shape the innovation measurement and the innovation policy agenda of the countries it analyses.

This year’s edition, The Global Innovation Index 2018: Energizing the World with Innovation, is dedicated to the theme of energy innovation. The GII 2018 analyses the energy innovation landscape of the next decade and identifies possible breakthroughs in fields such as energy production, storage, distribution, and consumption. It also looks at how breakthrough innovation occurs at the grassroots level and describes how small-scale renewable systems are on the rise.