Denmark has maintained its position as one of the world’s most innovative countries according to the 2020 Global Innovation Index, freshly published by the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Denmark ranked as a sixth place, which is a position better than last year and two better than in 2018.
Denmark received its highest marks in the categories Human Capital & Research (2), Infrastructure (4) and Market Sophistication (8) and its lowest grade for Knowledge & Technology Outputs and Institutions (both 12).
Read more about Denmark’s strengths and weaknesses here in the Danish country profile.
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Well, well, Yemen
Switzerland topped the ranking, followed by Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Finland, Singapore, Germany and South Korea finished in the top 10.
Other notables included China (14), Japan (16), Canada (17), Norway (20), Australia (23), Russia (47), India (48), Mexico (55), Indonesia (85) and Nigeria ( 117).
Yemen finished last in the ranking after Guinea, Myanmar, Niger and Ethiopia.
See the entire Global Index for 2020 here.
Source: The Nordic Page