The Global Innovation Index 2024 was prepared under the general direction of Daren Tang, Director General, in WIPO’s IP and Innovation Ecosystems Sector led by Marco Alemán, Assistant Director General, and in the Department of Economics and Data Analytics led by Carsten Fink, Chief Economist.
The report and rankings are produced by a core team managed by Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, Head of Section, comprising Vanessa Behrens, Project Manager, Davide Bonaglia, Oriol Gisbert Martí, Anmol Kaur Grewal (all GII Fellows), Lorena Rivera León, Economist, and Jeff Slee, Data Scientist, from the WIPO Composite Indicator Research Section responsible for the GII, and William Becker, consultant in a personal capacity.
Soumitra Dutta (Oxford University and Portulans Institute), Bruno Lanvin (International Institute for Management Development, IMD and Portulans Institute), Lorena Rivera León (WIPO) and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent (WIPO) serve as co-editors of the GII.
The following WIPO colleagues provided substantive inputs to GII elaboration or dissemination: Kyle Bergquist, Ryan Lamb, Bruno Le Feuvre and Hao Zhou, all from the Statistics and Data Analytics Division, as well as colleagues from the External Relations Division, the Information and Digital Outreach Division, the IP and Innovation Ecosystems Sector, the Language Division, the News and Media Division, the Printing Plant, the Regional and National Development Sector, the WIPO Office in New York, and WIPO’s External Offices.
A special thank you goes to our partners at the Portulans Institute; in particular, Rafael Escalona Reynoso, Mariam Chaduneli and Sylvie Antal for their contributions. We also thank the GII’s Advisory Committee, the GII Industry Association Network, Academic Network and the GII Data Collaborators for their participation, as well as the Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN) team from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre – led my Michaela Saisana – that conducted the statistical audit. The report was edited by Richard Cook, Andy Platts and James Cooke at Book Now Ltd. The GII interactive data website was developed by Pere Rovira and Víctor Pascual at OneTandem.
We are grateful to the following individuals and institutions for collaborating with data requests, and without whom the Index would not be what it is:
AlpInvest: Peter Corneliu
BloombergNEF: Evelina Stoikou
Brand Finance: Areeb Arshad, Annie Brown, Artur Bryzghalov, David Haigh, Bethany Johnson, Thulith Perera and Binuri Ranasinghe
CB Insights: Matthew Rados and Aaron Winkler
Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University: Robert Tijssen and Alfredo Yegros
Clarivate Analytics: Joseph Brightbill and Uwe Wendland
data.ai (a Sensor Tower Company): Donny Kristianto and Lexi Sydow
Energy Institute: Ian Jones, Ololade Osifala and Sneha Thomas
European Commission Joint Research Centre: Jaime Lagüera González, Panagiotis Ravanos, Michaela Saisana, Oscar Smallenbroek and Carlos Tacao Moura from COIN; and Elisabeth Nindl
GitHub: Peter Cihon, Mike Linksvayer and Kevin Xu
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM): Niels Bosma, Alicia Coduras and Aileen Ionescu-Somers
Growth Lab at Harvard University: Sebastian Bustos, Timothy Paul Cheston and Annie White
Harvard Business School (HBS): Josh Lerner
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Mauro Carrara and Egor Titovich
International Energy Agency (IEA): Aidan Kennedy, Taylor Morrison and Roberta Quadrelli
International Federation of Robotics (IFR): Susanne Bieller and Nina Kutzbach
International Labour Organization (ILO): Horacio Barría, Roger Gomis, Steven Kapsos and Yves Perardel
International Monetary Fund (IMF): Andrea Quevedo and Kazuko Shirono
International Organization for Standardization (ISO): Laurent Charlet and Cristina Draghici
International Telecommunication Union (ITU): Nehal Desai, Thierry Geiger, Esperanza Magpantay, Nathan Menthon, Martin Schaaper and Daniel Vertesy
IQVIA institute for Human Data Science: Murray Aitken
LSEG Data & Analytics
LUISS Guido Carli University: Cecilia Jona-Lasinio
Moody’s Analytics: Renato Ferrigno, Kirill Katschura, Santhosh Metri and Sasha Uvarova
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA GISS): Reto Ruedy
National Institutes of Health: Kris Wetterstrand
Omdia: David Hancock
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): Fernando Galindo-Rueda, Tue Halgreen, Corinne Heckmann, Miyako Ikeda, Simon Normandeau and Fabien Verger
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC): Kamlesh Balasubramanian and Shreeta Sen
QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd: Andrew MacFarlane and Samuel Wong
Red de Indicadores de Ciencia y Tecnología (RICYT): Rodolfo Barrere and Laura Trama
S&P Global Market Intelligence: Mohsen Bonakdarpour and Karen Campbell
SCImago: Félix de Moya Anegón
Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat): Malgorzata Stadnik
Statistics Netherlands: Klaas De Vries
The Conference Board: Dana Peterson and Markus Schomer
Trade Data Monitor LLC: C. Donald Brasher Jr., John Miller, Maria Vretenicic and Altan Yurdakul
TU Wien: Karl Rupp
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): Adolfo Gustavo Imhof, Olivier Labé, Patrick Montjouridès, Rohan Pathirage and José Pessoa
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO): Fernando Cantú Bazaldua and Vladimir Lukic
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF): Tom Slaymaker
United Nations Population Division: Patrick Gerland
United Nations Public Administration Network
World Bank: Jean-François Arvis, Tony Fujs, Aart Kraay, Hiroko Maeda, Eric Roland Metreau, Frederic Meunier, Florina Pirlea, Jorge Luis Rodriguez Meza and Christina Wiederer
World Economic Forum: Roberto Crotti, Philipp Grosskurth, Ricky Li and Vesselina Stefanova Ratcheva
World Federation of Exchanges: Mihaela Croitoru
World Health Organization (WHO): Richard Johnston
World Trade Organization (WTO): Shradha Bhatia, Barbara Carmelina D’Andrea Adrian, Yu Dayong, Florian Eberth, Monia Snoussi-Mimouni, Janvier Usanase and Ying Yan
Yale University: Sebastián Block
ZookNIC Inc: Matthew Zook