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2025 Global Innovation Scorecard

In its ambitious fourth edition, CTA expands the Global Innovation Scorecard to evaluate 74 countries, including the entire G-20, all 27 members of the European Union, and the EU as a whole.
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Categories

  • Acts Green

    Acts Green evaluates the quality of a country’s air and drinking water.

  • Actual Diversity

    Actual Diversity measures the concentration of various ethnic groups within a country and the gender gap in its workforce.

  • Fundamental Freedoms

    Fundamental Freedoms evaluates the degree to which a country grants its citizens certain civil and political liberties.

  • Invests in Skilled Workforce

    Invests in Skilled Workforce evaluates a country’s population on the basis of educational attainment, availability of high-skilled workers, and the share of ICT-related advanced degrees.

  • Promotes Resilience & Digital Transparency

    Promotes Resilience & Digital Transparency evaluates the extent to which a country’s government provides services on the internet, enabling it to withstand shocks.

  • Encourages Telehealth

    Encourages Telehealth evaluates the extent to which a country permits care for its population by Telemedicine.

  • Allows Cross-Border Data Flows

    Allows Cross-Border Data Flows evaluates the extent to which a country permits the flow of data without onerous and/or arbitrary requirements that create hindrances for end users or operators of online systems including, but not limited to, cloud storage and streaming media.

  • Friendly to Digital Platforms

    Friendly to Digital Platforms evaluates to the degree to which a country enables people to use Web 2.0 technologies such as social media.

  • Legal Climate

    Legal Climate evaluates the health and fairness of a country’s judicial institutions.

  • Encourages Broadband

    Encourages Broadband measures a country’s number of mobile broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, number of fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants and the mean download speeds of its internet connections.

  • Encourages Global Tech Trade

    Encourages Global Tech Trade considers five factors: a country’s participation in the International Trade Agreement of 1997; a country’s participation in the International Trade Agreement of 2015; the share of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as a percentage of a country’s total exports and as a percentage of total imports.

  • R&D Friendly

    R&D Friendly measures a country’s gross expenditure on research and development, as a percentage of its GDP, using data from the WIPO 2023 Global Innovation Index.

  • Startup & Small Business Friendly

    Startup & Small Business Friendly evaluates how easy it is to start a new business in a country.

  • Tax Friendly

    Tax Friendly evaluates the competitiveness of a country’s tax system, based on its top federal corporate tax rate, and its top individual marginal tax rate.

  • Blockchain Friendly

    Blockchain Friendly evaluates the degree to which a country allows people to use Web 3.0 technologies without onerous requirements or unnecessary hindrances.

  • Welcomes Self-Driving Vehicles

    Welcomes Self-Driving Vehicles evaluates the extent to which a country permits the testing and operation of self-driving vehicles on its public roads.