Global Innovation Index Rank: Norway

## What this measures

Where Norway places in the Global Innovation Index, WIPO's yearly ranking of how innovative economies are. 1st is the most innovative of the economies covered that year.

## Why it matters

The GII is the most widely cited cross-country read of innovation capacity. Governments use it to set policy targets, and a change in rank is often how a shift in an economy's research, business and technology base first shows up in the news.

## How to read it

Lower is better: 1st leads the world. Each point is one edition, dated September 1 of the year it was published. Ranks are the cleaner way to follow an economy over time: WIPO revises the model between editions (indicators added or dropped, data availability), so a change of a place or two can come from the model rather than the economy.

## What it does not say

A rank says nothing about how far ahead or behind an economy is; the score does. The number of economies covered changes a little each year. The index measures inputs to and outputs of innovation from about eighty indicators; it is not a measure of growth or productivity.

## Source

Source: Global Innovation Index, WIPO (CC BY 4.0). Rankings and scores compiled by Palanor. Palanor copied each value from the edition's rankings table; no value was changed.

- 2021: [Global Innovation Index 2021: Tracking Innovation through the COVID-19 Crisis](https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_gii_2021.pdf), "Global Innovation Index 2021 rankings" - 2022: [Global Innovation Index 2022: What is the future of innovation-driven growth?](https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo-pub-2000-2022-en-main-report-global-innovation-index-2022-15th-edition.pdf), "Global Innovation Index 2022 rankings" - 2023: [Global Innovation Index 2023: Innovation in the face of uncertainty](https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo-pub-2000-2023-en-main-report-global-innovation-index-2023-16th-edition.pdf), "Global Innovation Index 2023 rankings" - 2024: [Global Innovation Index 2024: Unlocking the Promise of Social Entrepreneurship](https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo-pub-2000-2024-en-global-innovation-index-2024.pdf), "Global Innovation Index 2024 rankings" - 2025: [Global Innovation Index 2025: Innovation at a Crossroads (executive summary)](https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo-pub-2000-2025-exec-en-global-innovation-index-2025.pdf), "Global Innovation Index 2025 rankings" - 2026: [Global Innovation Index 2026: Powering entrepreneurs at the frontier of science](https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo-pub-2000-2026-en-global-innovation-index-2026.pdf), "Global Innovation Index 2026 rankings"

The 2020 edition is not included: it was published under a licence that does not allow commercial use. Updated each autumn when WIPO publishes the new edition.

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