Singapore ranks 5th in 2025 Global Innovation Index

This marks its third consecutive year in the top five.

Singapore has placed 5th out of 139 economies in the 2025 Global Innovation Index (GII), marking its third straight year in the top five, according to the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS).

It also ranked second in the Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Oceania (SEAO) region.

This is also the second year that Singapore has achieved the highest number of top-ranked indicators, securing first place for 10 out of 78 GII indicators.

The GII ranking is based on two areas: innovation inputs and innovation outputs.

Singapore maintained its top position in innovation inputs for the 15th year in a row.

It continued to hold the top spot for the institutions pillar, whilst maintaining second position in the human capital and research pillar and third position in the business sophistication pillar.

Top-ranked indicators for Singapore include government effectiveness, policy stability for doing business, and FDI net inflows.

Singapore rose two places to ninth in innovation outputs, which marks its highest ranking in over a decade.

The country advanced two positions to seventh in the knowledge and technology outputs pillar and four positions to 15th in the creative outputs pillar.

This improvement was driven by strengths in high-tech manufacturing, unicorn valuations, and cultural and creative exports, alongside gains in intangible asset intensity and brand value of top firms.