Intellectual capital and innovation index

Intellectual Capital Index

Quality and availability of education in the past are an indication for today’s R&D and innovation capabilities, and today’s education performance reflect future innovation capabilities. Strength and depth of R&D activities is the basis for the development of value-added technologies and services. Educational performance indicators are therefore highly important to estimate the ability for sustained innovation and competitiveness

Intellectual capital: sustaining the innovation drive

Innovation – which in turn is the result of education – allows countries to compete in the globalised markets.
In order to create and sustain wealth, jobs and income for the population are required. Providing jobs requires producing goods and providing services that people or businesses, domestically or abroad, are willing to buy. This in turn requires products and services to be competitive in the global market in terms of quality and price. To maximise the domestic benefits, the value chain is ideally covered within the boundaries of a national economy – the largest share of adding value is contained in processing raw materials and/or parts to finished products.

The Intellectual Capital Index is based indicators that measure the extend of the following clusters

State of the World – Intellectual Capital

The global average in the Intellectual Capital Index is 37 – the gap to a perfect World 63. The Difference between low-performing countries (lowest: 16) and the highest score (74) is striking, and reflects – even stronger than a GNI comparison – the North-South gap. A high score in the Intellectual Capital Index is the basis for future innovation and therefore economic success. Unfortunately, poor countries also score poor in Intellectual Capital, raising the fear that large parts of Africa will remain trapped in poverty.

On a positive note, nearly 60% of all indicators show positive development globally. However, most of the improvements seem to be originating in Europe, Far & South-East Asia, and the Americas (excluding Central America).

Global Intellectual Capital Scores

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Global Average

Global Best

Ideal World

Global Intellectual Capital Trends

Positive Trends

No Trend

Negative Trends

Countries with a high score in this ranking are more likely than others to develop (or sustain) successful economies through research and know-ledge driven industries, i.e. high-value added industries, and therefore achieve higher growth rates.

Intellectual Capital Index Ranking 2023

The Innovation ranking continues to be topped by South Korea – by a considerable margin.
China is ranked 3^,the US 7
North-Eastern Asian nations (S. Korea, China, Japan, Singapore) dominate the intellectual capital sub-index of the GSCI.
North-East Asia trend show a faster development than their counterparts in “The West”
Scandinavian Nations are all within the top twenty, as is Israel
The UK is ranked 5, Germany 6
Brazil is ranked 70, and India 84.
Morocco (54) and South Africa (59) are the highest ranked nation on the African continent
Most of Africa is unfortunately still underperforming in the global intellectual capital comparison, raising fear of prolonged entrapment in poverty

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2023 Intellectual Capital Ranking

Rank	Country	Score
1	South Korea	75.2
2	Singapore	68.9
3	China	68.8
4	Japan	68.6
5	United Kingdom	65.2
6	Germany	65.2
7	USA	64.6
8	Switzerland	63.6
9	Israel	61.8
10	France	61.6
11	Finland	61.4
12	Sweden	60.7
13	Denmark	60.5
14	Norway	60.4
15	Netherlands	59.9
16	Austria	59.6
17	Belgium	59.1
18	Portugal	58.8
19	Turkey	58.6
20	Italy	57.4
21	Canada	55.7
22	Iceland	55.3
23	Czech Republic	55.2
24	Thailand	55.1
25	Slovenia	55.0
26	Estonia	55.0
27	Australia	53.5
28	Russia	53.3
29	Iran	53.0
30	Latvia	52.8
31	Poland	51.9
32	Malta	50.6
33	Cyprus	50.6
34	Lithuania	50.0
35	New Zealand	49.7
36	Ireland	49.2
37	Chile	49.1
38	Vietnam	49.0
39	Luxembourg	48.9
40	Hungary	48.5
42	Peru	47.7
43	Tonga	47.5
44	Colombia	47.1
45	Spain	46.5
46	Croatia	46.4
47	Micronesia	46.1
48	Slovakia	46.0
49	Malaysia	45.7
50	Greece	45.5
51	Timor-Leste	45.1
52	Uruguay	44.7
53	Kiribati	44.4
54	Morocco	44.3
55	Ecuador	44.2
56	Fiji	43.8
57	Saudi Arabia	43.6
58	Kazakhstan	43.5
59	South Africa	43.5
60	United Arab Emirates	43.1

Rank	Country	Score
61	Mauritius	42.9
62	Oman	42.9
63	Philippines	42.9
64	Solomon Islands	42.6
65	Qatar	42.4
66	West Bank and Gaza	42.3
67	Mexico	42.1
68	Mongolia	42.0
69	Azerbaijan	42.0
70	Brazil	41.9
71	Argentina	41.8
72	Paraguay	41.8
73	Nepal	41.6
74	Georgia	41.6
75	Algeria	41.5
76	Kyrgistan	41.5
77	Ukraine	41.2
78	Burma	41.2
79	Serbia	41.0
80	Tunisia	40.5
81	Indonesia	40.4
82	Cuba	40.1
83	Guyana	40.0
84	India	39.9
85	Costa Rica	39.9
86	Sao Tome and Principe	39.8
87	Turkmenistan	39.7
88	Albania	39.6
89	Seychelles	39.5
90	Vanuatu	39.5
91	Armenia	39.3
92	Rwanda	39.2
93	Samoa	39.1
94	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	39.0
95	Bulgaria	38.8
97	Uzbekistan	38.2
98	Belarus	38.0
99	Bhutan	37.9
100	Bahrain	37.8
101	Jordan	37.8
102	Grenada	37.7
103	Belize	37.7
104	Egypt	37.7
105	St. Kitts and Nevis	37.5
106	Dominican Republic	37.4
107	Dominica	37.3
108	Eswatini	37.3
109	Senegal	37.2
110	Maldives	37.2
111	Moldova	37.0
112	Laos	37.0
113	Guatemala	36.9
114	Bolivia	36.8
115	Sri Lanka	36.7
116	Bangladesh	36.3
117	Jamaica	36.2
118	Kuwait	36.2
119	Tajikistan	36.1
120	Montenegro	36.1

Rank	Country	Score
121	Brunei	36.0
122	Bahamas	35.5
123	Gambia	35.4
124	Syria	35.4
125	Kenya	35.3
126	Panama	35.3
128	Romania	35.0
129	Suriname	34.9
130	Togo	34.7
131	Cameroon	34.4
132	Bosnia and Herzegovina	34.0
133	Namibia	33.8
135	North Macedonia	33.5
136	Djibouti	33.4
137	Gabon	33.3
138	Cote d'Ivoire	33.0
139	Mozambique	32.8
140	Liberia	32.2
141	Trinidad and Tobago	32.1
142	Burkina Faso	32.0
143	Nicaragua	31.9
144	Venezuela	31.2
145	Benin	31.1
146	Sierra Leone	31.0
147	Malawi	30.9
148	Honduras	30.9
149	Burundi	30.8
150	Lesotho	30.4
151	Zambia	30.3
152	Botswana	30.0
153	Yemen	29.9
154	Cape Verde	29.8
155	Ghana	29.3
156	El Salvador	29.1
157	Haiti	28.6
158	Cambodia	28.5
159	Tanzania	28.5
160	Lebanon	28.3
161	Ethiopia	28.3
162	Pakistan	27.8
163	Republic of Congo	27.6
164	Comoros	27.6
166	Iraq	26.9
167	Democratic Republic of Congo	26.7
168	Zimbabwe	26.4
169	Guinea	26.1
170	Sudan	25.9
171	Mauritania	25.8
172	Angola	25.8
173	Madagascar	25.7
174	Papua New Guinea	25.7
175	Nigeria	25.4
176	Mali	24.7
177	Uganda	24.4
178	Chad	24.4
179	Central African Republic	23.6
180	Afghanistan	23.5

Intellectual Capital Index

Intellectual Capital Index

Intellectual capital: sustaining the innovation drive

State of the World – Intellectual Capital

Global Intellectual Capital Scores

Global Intellectual Capital Trends

Intellectual Capital Index Ranking 2023

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2023 Intellectual Capital Ranking