GENEVA: The Sultanate of Oman has made headway in the Global Innovation Index 2025, advancing 5 places compared to last year’s report, ranking 69th out of 139 economies worldwide, according to the Global Innovation Index 2025.
The Global Innovation Index 2025 report, compiled by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), indicated that the Sultanate of Oman has made a significant progress among the top 20 countries in six sub-indices: the development of the economic cluster environment, ranking 9th globally; business policy stability (10th globally); percentage of graduates in science and engineering (12th globally); net foreign direct investment inflows as a percentage of GDP (14th globally); access to information and communications technology (15th globally); electricity production index (kilowatt-hours per million people) in which the Sultanate of Oman ranked 16th globally.
The report showed that the Sultanate of Oman made significant progress in three pillars advancing three places in the institutions pillar ranking 40th globally, advancing eight places in the infrastructure pillar and ranking 55th globally and advancing 23 places in the business sophistication pillar and ranking 63rd globally.
The Sultanate of Oman has also achieved qualitative leaps in 7 sub-indices, advancing 60 notches in the index of patents by origin per billion dollars of GDP at purchasing power parity. It also advanced 23 positions in the business development pillar, 22 ranks in the high-tech manufacturing index, 21 positions in the index of gross capital formation as a percentage of GDP, 21 ranks in the index of net foreign direct investment flows, as a percentage of GDP, in addition to advancing 20 ranks in the index of knowledge production, and 5 ranks in the index of research cooperation between the industrial and academic sectors.
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