report 1: The Global Innovation Index (GII)
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) recently
published the 14th edition of the GII. In the
introduction WIPO Director-General Gary Tang says this:
"To overcome the pandemic and build back better we will
need to continue supporting the translation of great ideas into
game-changing products."
Tang goes on to justify the GII as follows:
"The GII's overall formula for measuring an
economy's innovative capacity and output provides clarity for
decision-makers in government, business and elsewhere as they look
forward to creating policies that enable their people to invent and
create more efficiently."
So what does the GII show? Well it tells us that the ten most
innovative countries in descending order are Switzerland, Sweden,
USA, UK, Korea, Netherlands, Finland, Singapore, Denmark and
Germany. Perhaps no real surprises there! But as
we're an Africa-based and Africa-focused firm I'd like
