Government · Innovation programs

Your innovation ranking is public. So is your response to it.

Every year WIPO's Global Innovation Index scores 139 economies. The economies that climb treat innovation as core infrastructure - open programs, co-investment, and problems put to the market. Check where you stand, then let's move it.

Check your economy · WIPO Global Innovation Index 2025
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SOURCE: WIPO GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX 2025 · 139 ECONOMIES · SELECTED ECONOMIES SHOWN - FULL DATA AT WIPO.INT
Why now

The world is pulling back on innovation investment. That's the opening.

WIPO's 2025 data shows global innovation funding slowing across the board. Economies that lean in while others retreat buy rank, talent and industry at a discount.

Global R&D growth · 2024
2.9%
Down from 4.4% - projected to slow to 2.3% in 2025, the weakest pace since 2010
Global VC deal count
−4.4%
Third consecutive year of decline in deal numbers worldwide
The pattern in the data
Inputs ≠ outputs
Many economies fund research well but rank far lower on innovation outputs - the conversion layer is missing
Programs you can open

Three ways governments deploy budget through the network.

You bring the mandate and the budget line. We bring 140+ investor mandates, an AI qualification engine that verifies every company against its own source documents, and a matching engine that already routes capital to them.

Challenge programs

Put your problem to the market

Define a problem statement and a prize or pilot budget. We run the national or state-wide challenge: sourcing, screening, and a judged showcase - with VCs in the room so winners get follow-on capital, not just a certificate.

Co-investment

Multiply every public dollar

Match public funding alongside the network's private investors into stage-eligible companies in your priority sectors. Private mandates lead diligence; your budget crowds capital in instead of replacing it.

Procurement pilots

Be the first customer

The cheapest innovation policy is a purchase order. We match agencies with vetted startups solving the problem you already face, structure a paid pilot, and manage it to a procurement-ready outcome.

Submit a problem

Tell us the problem. The network will bid to solve it.

Every submitted problem is reviewed by our team, scoped into a challenge brief, and matched against companies and research groups already working on it. No cost to submit - you decide whether to fund a program after seeing what the network returns.

GOVERNMENT DOMAIN REQUIRED FOR VERIFICATION

Problem received. Scoping begins.

Our team verifies your agency, scopes the brief, and returns a market-response snapshot - how many companies, research groups and investors in the network match your problem - within 10 business days.

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Rankings measure the past. Programs change the future.

Open a challenge, co-invest alongside 140+ private mandates, or become a first customer. The economies climbing the index are the ones that moved first.

Submit a problem