The Sensen-Hong Kong-Guangzhoulocated in the wider area of ​​Guangdong-Hong Kong-Makao (GBA), is now at the top of World Innovation Index For 2025 (Global Innovation Index), according to data from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Its emergence in the first place marks a historical development as it comes to displace the previously dominant innovation complex Tokyo-Yokohama of Japan.

It is worth noting that, by 2020, this particular Chinese cluster has firmly occupied the second place in the relevant classification. This year’s rise at the top highlights the growing innovation skills that are systematically developing in this area and confirms the collective dynamics and synergy Among the cities of the GBA complex.

Innovation criteria and new data on the index

Innovation clusters evaluation for 2025 was carried out with the introduction of a new, decisive criterion: his volume of business capital transactionswho came to frame the existing indicators. Among them are included International Convention Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) watched by WIPO, the International Patent Applicationsas well as the number of scientific publications derived from each innovation complex as recorded in the scientific journals of the index Science Citation Index Expanded (Scie).