Measuring the Innovation Index of New Zealand
 

Project Description and Objectives

This project sponsored by IBM sought to measure the level of innovation in New Zealand across 18 sectors of business. With a team of economists, IP lawyers and other innovation experts the output was an Innovation Index which was a comprehensive, multi-indicator benchmarking study showing the shape and rate of innovation across "the selected industries" between 2007 and 2011 in New Zealand. The overall Index is a weighted composite of three broad official measures of innovation; R&D, Intellectual Property and Business Innovation.  New Zealand was ranked 17th in the 2016 Global Innovation Index (see link below). While we are behind Singapore at 6th place, we punch well above our weight in terms of innovation outputs and efficiency ratios.

For more information visit https://www.globalinnovationindex.org/