During 2023 persistent uncertainty took its toll on global innovation - interest rates and inflation soared, global conflicts raged and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic lingered. Yet despite the bleak economic landscape, the fourth offering from the Global Innovation Hubs Index (GIHI) has found unexpected bright spots and gained deeper insights into cities that have succeeded at innovation. "Innovation is key for growth, but it is a complex process integrating many social and economic activities, making it difficult to measure," says GIHI's chief scientist, Ling Chen, who leads the Center for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. "We hope that the GIHI could help cities understand their potential and provide some direction for public policy to drive innovation." Led by Chen's team at Tsinghua, and supported by Nature Research Intelligence, the 2023 GIHI examined the performances of 119 cities and metropolitan areas, which collectively are home to about 11% of the world's population. Similar to prior years, the analysis was based on three key indicators of innovation: research innovation, the innovation economy, and the innovation ecosystem. Each metric was constructed with a wide range of data.
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