Innovative region: UK

The UK is among the global innovation leaders according to the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2021, a report produced by Cornell University, Insead and the World Intellectual Property Organisation. The country only lags Switzerland, Sweden and the US, and is ahead of other high-income economies including South Korea, the Netherlands, Finland and Singapore.

The British universities are among the world’s most successful in terms of research, commercialisation of intellectual property and tech transfer, with University of Cambridge, University College London (UCL), University…

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Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.