India ranks 66th on Global Innovation Index 2013

03 Jul 2013 Evaluate

India has been ranked poorly at 66th, among 142 countries across the world on the basis of their innovation and efficiency in the Global Innovation Index 2013, published jointly by Cornell University, INSEAD and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). The indicators used for the study included quality of top universities, availability of microfinance, venture capital deals. The local dynamics of innovation, which is usually under-measured globally, was the major focus in this year’s report. The report helps to act as a valuable guide for the policy makers to develop specific strategies relevant to their local Innovation eco-system.

India ranked poor in the areas such as political stability, Ease of starting business, School life expectancy, Pupil-teacher ratio, Knowledge absorption and others. However, India ranked number one followed by Kazakhstan and Sri Lanka in the Central and South Asia region, and 11th overall in Innovation efficiency ratio. India’s strength areas were said to be Gross Capital formation as percentage of GDP, Investment in new business, Industrial cluster development, computer and information services exports and creative goods exports.

Innovation is functioning actively even in the economic crisis. The GII 2013 is calculated as average of two sub-indices, the Innovation Input Sub-Index and the Innovation Output Sub-Index. This year’s toppers in the GII were Switzerland and Sweden’s followed by the UK, the Netherlands and the US in that order performance. A group of dynamic middle and low-income countries, which includes China, Costa Rica, India and Senegal - are outpacing their peers, but haven't broken into the top of the GII 2013 leader board.

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