According to the 2021 Global Innovation Index Report released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva on September 20, China ranked 12th, up 2 places from 2020. The "Report" spoke highly of China's progress in innovation, and emphasized the importance of government decision-making and incentive measures to promote innovation.
According to the "Report", with the huge impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, governments and enterprises in many countries and regions have increased their investment in innovation in 2020. Innovation indicators such as technological output, R&D expenditure, intellectual property applications and venture capital transactions have continued to grow, showing strong resilience.
Among them, in terms of R&D expenditure, the capital investment of companies with the highest R&D expenditure in the world increased by 10% year-on-year, and nearly 60% of R&D expenditure-intensive companies increased capital investment year-on-year; in terms of venture capital transactions, global venture capital transactions increased by 5.8% year-on-year. Exceeds the average growth rate of the past 10 years.
According to the "Report", Switzerland ranked first for the 11th consecutive year, Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom, and South Korea ranked second to fifth; China ranked 12th, ranking first among middle-income economies, surpassing Japan, Israel, and South Korea. Developed economies such as Canada; South Korea moves from 10th in 2020 to 5th in 2021, with a clear upward trend; Middle-income economies such as Turkey (41st), Vietnam (44th), and India (46th) The ranking has risen significantly in the past 10 years, and it is changing the global innovation landscape.
It is particularly worth mentioning that since 2013, China has been steadily rising in the global innovation index ranking for 9 consecutive years, with a strong upward momentum.
In terms of sub-indices, from the perspective of innovation input, China’s trade, competition and market scale, and knowledge-based workers are among the global leaders. Reading, mathematics and science PISA scale scores, domestic market scale, and provision of formal The proportion of training companies, the diversification of domestic industries, the average expenditure of the top three global R&D companies, the average score of the top three QS universities, the development of industrial clusters, the proportion of total capital formation in GDP, the proportion of corporate funding GERD And other subdivision indicators rank high. This shows that China has taken more measures to promote industry-university-research cooperation, develop characteristic industries, and strengthen and optimize the real economy, creating a better environment for enterprise innovation and development.
From the perspective of innovation output, China's advantages are concentrated in intangible assets, knowledge creation, and knowledge influence. Among them, domestic patent and trademark applications, and the proportion of creative product exports in total trade and other sub-indices have achieved the world's leading position. In 2021, the broad index of knowledge dissemination has made significant progress, especially the segmented index of the proportion of intellectual property income in total trade, which shows that China is gradually transforming from a large country of intellectual property introduction to a large country of intellectual property creation.
In the global ranking of "best technology clusters", Tokyo-Yokohama area in Japan, Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou area in China, Beijing, Seoul, and San Jose-San Francisco area in the United States rank in the top five. Compared with last year, the ranking of Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou (No. 2) remains unchanged, while Beijing (No. 3), Shanghai (No. 8), Nanjing (No. 18), Hangzhou (No. 21), etc. all have rankings The increase, and the increase is obvious.
WIPO Director General Deng Hongsen said: “This year’s Global Innovation Index shows us that despite the huge impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic on lives and livelihoods, many departments have shown amazing resilience-especially those that focus on digitalization, technology and innovation. Sector. As the world looks forward to rebuilding from the pandemic, we know that innovation plays an indispensable role in overcoming the common challenges we face and building a better future. The Global Innovation Index is a unique tool that can guide Policymakers and the business community make plans to ensure that we escape the pandemic and become stronger."
WIPO began to publish the Global Innovation Index in 2007. It has become an international authoritative report on the level of innovation and intellectual property rights. It has strong objectivity and is highly concerned by the international community. From the perspectives of innovation input and innovation output, the "Report" adopts 81 indicators in seven categories, including policy environment, human capital and research, infrastructure, market maturity, business maturity, knowledge and technology output, and creative output. A systematic measurement of the comprehensive innovation capabilities of 132 economies around the world.

                                                  Source of this article: Science and Technology Daily reporter Cao Xiuying


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