Chapter 2: Benchmarking Innovation Outperformance at the Global and Country Levels

At the global level, the need to spur innovation to foster economic growth and to find solutions to social challenges is increasingly recognized.Accordingly, benchmarking innovation performance is becoming a greater priority. Taking advantage of the wealth of information produced by the Global Innovation Index (GII) over the last years, this chapter compares the innovation performance of specific countries, identifies developing nations that persistently outperform their peers on innovation performance, and analyses how their local efforts have improved their capacity to innovate. This will help other countries look ahead to policy changes they might want to implement themselves.JRC.DDG.01-Econometrics and applied statistic