Dubai, UAE–The 2022 edition of the Global Innovation Index claims that it “tracks the most recent global innovation trends against the background of an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, slowing productivity growth and other evolving challenges.”
“This edition’s thematic focus on the future of innovation-driven growth provides a perspective on whether stagnation and low productivity growth are here to stay, or whether we are about to enter a new era, where new innovation spurts – the Digital Age and the Deep Science Innovation waves – bring about an economic uplift,” the GII said in a statement.
Arab economies, especially in the oil-rich Gulf, have been focusing on innovation as an essential part of their transformative visions. A look at how some of the Arab countries performed on the innovation index:
