Finland leads the world in innovation rankings

Published by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the annual report looked at 80 detailed metrics for 129 economies in 2019.

Switzerland topped the overall list once again, with Sweden, the US, the Netherlands and the UK rounding out the top five. Finland moved up one spot to sixth position and remains a world leader in a number of important innovation metrics, such as patent families, school life expectancy and ease of resolving insolvency.

Other areas where Finland excelled were human capital and research (second), business sophistication (fifth), online creativity (sixth) and knowledge diffusion (seventh).