Uzbekistan ranked 82nd in the Global Innovation Index

International forum "Global Innovation Index-2022: Experience of Uzbekistan" was held on October 19 this year during the Week of innovative ideas "InnoWeek.Uz-2022".

The event was opened by the Minister of Innovative Development of the Republic of Uzbekistan Ibrahim Abdurahmonov.

"Uzbekistan ranked 122nd out of 141 countries in the Global Innovation Index in 2015, and in 2022 it ranked 82nd out of 131 countries, rising by 40 positions and becoming the leader of Central Asia. Among the countries of Central and South Asia, it ranked third after India and Iran," said the Minister of Innovative Development.

Representatives of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), who are the honorary guests of the forum, participated online and offline. At the forum, the head of economics and statistics of WIPO, co-chairman of GII, Professor Sascha Wunsch-Vincent (Switzerland) made a presentation on the results of GII 2022 in Uzbekistan, noting that Uzbekistan has achieved high results in many areas of science and innovation, as well as rising in the global ranking four positions higher than last year - a policy of openness in the country, support for science is also the result of work aimed at improving innovation capacity.

Also, foreign experts praised the Uzbek government's attention to creating an innovation ecosystem at a time when the demand for innovation on a global scale has increased sharply.