Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Dong Liu
September 20, Beijing time, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released the "2021 Global Innovation Index Report" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"), ranking in China The 12th place, up 2 places from 2020, the ranking reached a new high.
The "Report" highly appraised China's progress in innovation and emphasized the importance of government decision-making and incentive measures to promote innovation. In the global "best technology cluster" ranking, the Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou region of China ranks second.
China ranks 12th, ranking first among middle-income economies
"Report" shows that Switzerland ranks first for the 11th consecutive year, Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom, and South Korea rank second respectively China ranks 12th, ranking first among middle-income economies, surpassing developed economies such as Japan, Israel, and Canada; South Korea moves from 10th in 2020 to 5th in 2021, showing a clear upward trend ; Turkey (41st), Vietnam (44th), India (46th) and other middle-income economies have risen significantly in their rankings in the past 10 years and are changing the global innovation landscape.
Since 2013, China has steadily increased its ranking in the Global Innovation Index for 9 consecutive years, with a strong upward momentum.
In terms of sub-indices, from the perspective of innovation input, China's trade, competition and market size, and knowledge workers are all in the global leading position. Reading, mathematics and science PISA scale scores, domestic market size , The proportion of companies that provide formal training, the diversification of domestic industries, the average expenditure of the top three global R&D companies, QS the average score of the top three universities, the development of industrial clusters, the proportion of total capital formation in GDP , Enterprise funding GERD and other subdivision indicators rank top.
This shows that China is promoting industry-university-research cooperation,More measures have been taken to develop characteristic industries, strengthen and optimize the real economy, and create a better environment for enterprise innovation and development.
From the perspective of innovation output, China's advantages are concentrated in intangible assets, knowledge creation, and knowledge influence. Among them, domestic patent and trademark applications, and the proportion of creative product exports in total trade and other sub-indices have achieved the world's leading position.
In 2021, the broad index of knowledge dissemination has made significant progress. In particular, the sub-indicator of the proportion of intellectual property revenue in total trade continues to improve, indicating that China is gradually transforming from a large country of intellectual property introduction to a large country of intellectual property creation .
The Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou region of China remains unchanged at the second place
The "Report" shows that in the global "Best Technology Cluster" ranking, Tokyo-Yokohama, China, Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou, China , Beijing, Seoul, and the San Jose-San Francisco regions of the United States ranked the top five.
Compared with last year, the ranking of Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou (No. 2) remains unchanged, while Beijing (No. 3), Shanghai (No. 8), Nanjing (No. 18), Hangzhou (No. 21), etc. All have risen, and the rise is obvious.
The Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou region of China remains unchanged at second place, which is related to the continuous promotion of the “Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao” technological innovation corridor in the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in recent years.
The " Development Plan Outline for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" (hereinafter referred to as the "Outline") announced in February 2019 proposes that by 2022, the comprehensive strength of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will be significantly enhanced, and "the collaborative innovation environment will be more Optimizing, accelerating the concentration of innovative elements, and significantly improving the ability to create new technologies and the ability to transform scientific and technological achievements"; by 2035, will form an economic system and development model with innovation as the main support, and economic strength and scientific and technological strength will be greatly improved. , The international competitiveness and influence are further enhanced.
The "Outline" also proposes to build an international scientific and technological innovation center, including building an open regional collaborative innovation community, creating a high-level scientific and technological innovation carrier and platform, and optimizing the regional innovation environment.(For more news, please follow the Yangcheng School pai.ycwb.com)
Source | Yangcheng Evening News Yangcheng School
Editor | Chen Wanyun
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