1、Global Innovation Index 2025Ranking of Worlds Top 100 Innovation ClustersThe GII reveals the top innovation clusters world-wide,by size and intensity.Cluster ranking 32025 GII Ranking of Worlds Top 100 Innovation ClustersInnovation clusters whether innovation-driven cities or regions form the beatin

2、g heart of national innovation systems.These hubs unite top universities,researchers,inventors,venture capitalists and R&D firms in drivingforward breakthrough ideas.From Bengaluru to Berlin,Boston to So Paulo,Shenzhen or Seoul,global cities blend research,start-ups and R&D firms to power innovation

3、.Each year,the Global Innovation Index(GII)ranks the top 100 innovation clusters worldwide(Map 1).The GII uses a bottom-up,data-driven methodology that disregards administrative or political borders and instead pinpoints those geographical areas where there is a high density of inventors and scienti

4、fic authors.Theclusters identified in this way often span several municipal districts,sub-federal states,and sometimes even two or more countries.Map 1 Top 100 innovation clusters worldwide,2025Innovation clusters:Top 100Noise non-cluster pointsNote:Gray points(noise)refer to all inventor/author loc

5、ations not classified as being within a cluster.Source:WIPO Statistics Database,May 2025.New methodology incorporates venture capital dataIn 2025,three metrics define the top 100 clusters globally(see Appendix IV for details and a comparison to earlier methods,in particular Appendix IV-Table 2 which

6、 ranksclusters in accordance with last years methodology).The first metric focuses on the location of inventors listed in published patent applications under the WIPO Patent Cooperation Treaty(PCT).1 The second metric considers the authors listed on published scientific articles.These two metrics ha