This is a great summary of innovation by country from Visual Capitalist. See the Global Innovation Index (GII) map here:https://www.visualcapitalist.
We, at Strategic Business Planning Company, www.SBP.com, are always interesting in all aspects of innovation. Sometimes we hear from a layperson or an executive that the most innovative country in the work is ...
Israel and Ireland were
mentioned in recent years. One executive said that "all innovation
comes from Israel". All right, admittedly, Israel is a great source of
innovation and invention, but it is a very small country (population,
GDP). In absolute terms, Israel is not even close, but in relative terms
(adjusted for size of country), Israel is a very respectable #16 in the
world (GII score of 50.2).