Seven economies within the Northern Africa and Western Asia region move up the ranking, including notable improvers Georgia (65th), Bahrain (67th), Jordan (71st) and Armenia (72nd), said the Global Innovation index report.
“Switzerland continues to be the uncontested innovation world champion, Singapore makes the top five, and Indonesia joins China, Turkey, India, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Viet Nam as most impressive innovation climbers of the last decade”, the report said.
Among the regional countries, Georgia is at 65th, Azerbaijan - 89th. Turkey 39th, Russia - 51st, Iran - 62nd.
Switzerland tops the ranking table. It is followed by Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom and Singapore.
In its conclusion, the reports said, ”The global innovation landscape is changing at this time of pandemic and recovery and geopolitical upheaval, not only within the group of leading innovation economies, but more widely. As a result, some of the changes in GII rank this year may partly reflect short rather than longer term trends”.
