כבכל שנה הפיק ארגון הקניין הרוחני הבינלאומי את דו"ח החדשנות המקיף "The Global Innovation Index 2017".
הדו"ח ממצב את ישראל כמובילה אזורית ובין המובילות בעולם - דירוג במקום ה-17 מתוך 127 המדינות המדורגות.
הדו"ח גם מציג שיפור רוחבי ועליה בדירוג מאז דו"ח 2016.
בין היתר הדו"ח מציין את ישראל כמקום ראשון בהשקעות הון סיכון ביחס ל- Gross domestic product (GDP).
מקום חמישי בעולם בתחכום עסקי.
מקום רביעי בעולם באחוז הנשים עם תארים מתקדמים בשוק העבודה.
כמקום ראשון בעולם באחוז ייצוא שירותי מידע ותקשורת ביחס.
וזאת למרות שישראל מדורגת במקום ב-115 מבחינת יציבות פוליטית ובטחון.
Northern Africa and Western Asia (19
economies)
Israel (17th) and Cyprus (30th)
achieve the top two spots in the
region for the fifth consecutive year,
improving by four and one positions,
respectively. Third in the region is
the United Arab Emirates (35th)
which moves up six places from
last year, the most striking upward
move in the region. In the case of
the United Arab Emirates, data collaboration
has also increased data
availability, reducing missing values
from 17 last year to 11 this year.
Important data points, however, are
still missing, making it difficult to
evaluate certain pillars, most notably
in Education, where three out of
five variables are not available, and
Knowledge workers, with two out
of five indicators missing.
Sixteen of the 19 economies in
the Northern Africa and Western
Asia region are in the top 100,
including Turkey (43rd), Qatar
(49th), Saudi Arabia (55th), Kuwait
(56th), Armenia (59th), Bahrain
(66th), Georgia (68th), Morocco
(72nd), Tunisia (74th), Oman (77th),
Lebanon (81st), Azerbaijan (82nd),
and Jordan (83rd). Of all the economies
in the region, Kuwait sees the
most improvement in its overall GII
ranking, having moved up 11 spots.
Israel moves up four places,
from 21st to 17th in 2017, remaining
number 1 in the Northern
Africa and Western Asia region.
Israel is the only economy in the
region to rank in the top 10 for any
pillar (5th, Business sophistication,
up one spot; and 9th, Knowledge
and technology outputs, up three).
The country ranks 20th and 14th
in the Innovation Input Sub-Index
and Innovation Output Sub-Index,
respectively, seeing the most gains
in Tertiary education (62nd, up 11
spots), Knowledge absorption (9th,
up 7 spots), and Knowledge diffusion
(8th, up 6 spots). Israel keeps
its 1st place in researchers, venture
capital deals, GERD performed
by business, and research talent in
business enterprise. It also gains top
3 positions in gross expenditure
on R&D (1st), university/industry
research collaboration (3rd), ICT
services export (1st), and Wikipedia
edits (3rd). Weaknesses for Israel are
found in the input side of the GII
and are more prominent in variables
such as gross fixed capital formation.
On the output side, two areas show
possibilities for improvement: the
growth rate of GDP per worker and
trademarks by origin.
The top three spenders relative to GDP are
Israel, Korea, and Japan, with Israel overtaking
Korea in 2015. Based on our estimates, China
is the only emerging economy with R&D
intensity above the global average. Other
middle-income economies, such as Malaysia,
Brazil, India, and South Africa, present lower
R&D intensities, between 1.3% and 0.7%.
Adopting
advanced technology has helped small
countries, including the Netherlands
and Israel. Notably, these countries,
have augmented the production of
high-value crops through enormous
productivity breakthroughs and,
even more importantly, by ensuring
the optimal utilization of resources
and maintaining the environmental
balance.
Those
countries with the highest number
of agriculture start-ups—remained
consistent year-over-year, with the
USA, India, Canada, the United
Kingdom, Israel, and France remaining
the top six by number of deals