The Global Innovation Index 2012 released this week by the international business school INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization ranks countries that are innovative by five ways: (1) Institutions, (2) Human capital and research, (3) Infrastructure, (4) Market sophistication, and (5) Business sophistication; and captures the actual evidence of innovation results, divided two ways: (6) Knowledge and technology outputs and (7) Creative outputs.
How does your country compare?
Here are the top countries, per region, in Innovation and innovation output around the world.