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ARTICLE VIEW:
China bumps Germany off the top 10 list of most innovative nations
By Reuters
Updated:
4:57 AM EDT, Tue September 16, 2025
Source: Reuters
China moved into the top 10 of the United Nations’ annual ranking of
most innovative countries for the first time Tuesday, replacing
Europe’s largest economy, Germany, as firms in Beijing invest heavily
in research and development.
Switzerland remained in first place, a position it has held since 2011,
followed by Sweden and the United States, while China was in 10th place
in the Global Innovation Index (GII) survey of 139 economies that ranks
them based on 78 indicators.
China is on track to become the biggest R&D spender as it rapidly
closes the gap in private sector financing, the GII showed.
China contributed about a quarter of international patent applications
in 2024, remaining the biggest source of them, while the US, Japan and
Germany – which together make up 40% of total applications – all
recorded slight declines.
Ownership of patents is widely seen as an important sign of a
country’s economic strength and industrial know-how.
The outlook for global innovation is clouded by declining investment,
according to the survey.
R&D growth is set to slow to 2.3% this year from 2.9% last year,
which was its lowest since 2010 after the financial crisis.
Looking at the long term, Germany should not be alarmed by its fall to
11th place, said GII co-editor, Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, adding that the
new rankings did not reflect the impact of tariffs imposed by the Trump
administration in the US.
“The challenge for Germany is how…, alongside its strong,
decades-long status as a really powerful engine of industrial
innovation, to become a powerhouse of digital innovation,” said Daren
Tang, director general of the UN’s World Intellectual Property
Organization, which publishes the innovation index.
The other countries in the list’s top 10 – behind the US and ahead
of China – were, in order of ranking: South Korea, Singapore,
Britain, Finland, the Netherlands and Denmark.
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