The Global Innovation Index 2022

The 15th edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII) provides new data and analysis on the state of global innovation and allows readers and policy-makers to benchmark the innovation ecosystem performance of more than 130 economies. The 2022 edition of the GII 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 latest edition gives Spain a score of 44.6 points and 29th position of the 132 countries analyzed, 18th position among European countries, one position above the 2021 edition.

The index is composed of 7 pillars: Institutions, Human capital and research, Infrastructures, Market sophistication, Business sophistication, Knowledge and technological results and Creative results. Spain is located in all the pillars, except for Institutions, in the quartile of best players (between positions 1st and 33rd), especially in Infrastructure, where it occupies position 16th.

Within the Infrastructure block, Spain ranks 23th in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) with a score of 86.2, showing its strength in Government’s online service, in which it ranks in position 17 with a score of 88.8. This section also analyzes ICT use and access and E-participation.