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Global Innovation Index 2025Ranking of World’s Top 100 Innovation ClustersThe GII reveals the top innovation clusters world-wide, by size and intensity.Cluster ranking 32025 GII Ranking of World’s Top 100 Innovation ClustersInnovation clusters – whether innovation-driven cities or regions – form the beating heart of national innovation systems. These hubs unite top universities, researchers, inventors, venture capitalists and R&D firms in driving forward  breakthrough ideas.From Bengaluru to Berlin, Boston to São Paulo, Shenzhen or Seoul, global cities blend research, start-ups and R&D firms to power innovation.Each year, the Global Innovation Index (GII) ranks the top 100 innovation clusters worldwide (Map 1). The GII uses a bottom-up, data-driven methodology that disregards administrative or political borders and instead pinpoints those geographical areas where there is a high density of inventors and scientific authors. The clusters identified in this way often span several municipal districts, sub-federal states, and sometimes even two or more countries.Map 1 Top 100 innovation clusters worldwide, 2025Innovation clusters: Top 100Noise non-cluster pointsNote: Gray points (noise) refer to all inventor/author locations not classified as being within a cluster.Source: WIPO Statistics Database, May 2025.New methodology incorporates venture capital dataIn 2025, three metrics define the top 100 clusters globally (see Appendix IV for details and a comparison to earlier methods, in particular Appendix IV - Table 2 which ranks clusters in accordance with last year’s methodology). –The first metric focuses on the location of inventors listed in published patent applications under the WIPO Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).1 –The second metric considers the authors listed on published scientific articles.These two metrics have served as the foundation for cluster identification across previous GII editions. This year, however, the GII is able to introduce a third metric, namely: –Venture capital (VC) deal locations.1 The WIPO Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) assists applicants in seeking patent protection for their inventions internationally, helps patent offices with making patent granting decisions, and facilitates public access to a wealth of technical information relating to these inventions. By filing one international patent application under the PCT System, applicants can simultaneously seek protection for an invention in a large number of countries (www.wipo.int/pct/en).Global Innovation Index 20254 This new approach for 2025 allows the GII to capture entrepreneurial activity and innovation finance, emphasizing start-ups and spin-offs. Together, these three metrics reveal those areas where there is a high concentration of inventors, scientific authors, and/or VC activity.The innovation ecosystems identified in this way frequently transcend administrative boundaries, encompassing metropolitan areas, multi-regional networks, and cross-border corridor