Innovation Cluster Rating

Innovation Cluster Ranking is an annual ranking of the world's largest innovationclusters published as part of the Global Innovation Index (GII) by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The ranking identifies geographically concentrated areas of innovation activity, using data on international patent filings, scientific publications and, since 2025, venture-capital deal locations. Unlike rankings based on administrative units, the cluster ranking uses a bottom-up geocoding method and may therefore define clusters that span several municipalities, subnational regions or countries.

The 2025 edition ranked Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou first, followed by Tokyo–Yokohama, San Jose–San Francisco, Beijing and Seoul. The top 100 clusters together accounted for about 70 percent of global Patent Cooperation Treaty filings and venture-capital deal activity, and around half of all scientific publications covered by the ranking.