The living atlas of the global innovation economy.
The Index, the registry, the live signal, and the research, converging on a single map you can fly into.
Four doors into the same instrument
By Place
Fly to any of 117 scored economies. Score, six zones, density, signal, and peers in one read.
By Capability
The six IEPA zones, from innovation capacity to prosperity outcomes. The profile, never one rank.
By Signal
A live intelligence stream, market and persona tagged, scored, with IE takeaways.
By Actor
The registry itself: organizations of every type, from universities to startups and funds. Facts are open. The directory is searchable.
Where does your region stand?
Six questions. See your region's provisional profile against 117 economies, the closest match, and the one constraint holding it back.
Where attention is flowing right now.
Live news velocity and sentiment across the global signal layer: the scored economies, in every language, refreshed daily.
Today this reads where the news points. Soon it reads live demand: who is seeking what across the network. The supply side is mapped. The demand side arrives as members reveal what they seek.
Move the weights. Watch the world re-rank.
The IEPA score is a transparent composite of six zones. Change what you value and the ranking responds, which is exactly why we report six zones and never one fixed rank.
Who's winning, and who's rising.
Live league tables, straight from the data. The most-indexed ecosystems by scale, and the economies that have climbed the most since 2010.
Two markets, head to head.
Pick any two economies and see them zone by zone. The view a government reaches for when it benchmarks against a competitor.
20 layers of the real economy
The real economy's actors, mapped into one registry. Every record carries its own confidence and vintage, so you always know how solid the ground beneath a number is.
The research that reads the map
Built by IE. Found Nowhere Else.
These are the methodologies, frameworks, and research outputs that underpin every IE engagement. Not borrowed. Not generic. Built from years of ecosystem design across emerging markets.
The IEPA: Innovative EcoSystems Prosperity Algorithm
IE's proprietary framework for measuring the foundational factors that determine a region's capacity to innovate and grow. Powers every advisory engagement, assessment, and program we design.
Your Guide to Building a Globally Competitive Innovative EcoSystem
A comprehensive playbook covering governance, policy design, talent development, program architecture, and the ten essential policies every ecosystem needs to compete globally.
IED Research V1: Innovation Ecosystem Design
IE's foundational research report examining the academic and applied basis for innovation ecosystem design, stakeholder dynamics, and the variables that determine ecosystem performance.
The complete operating manual for innovation ecosystem design. Request your copy and we’ll deliver it the day it ships.
76 Global Indices. One Integrated View.
The IEPA is actively scored on 76 global indices across six measurement zones, drawn from a library of 117 tracked sources. No other advisory firm gives you a single lens to understand which indices matter, what they measure, and how they apply to your market. This is the intelligence layer behind every IE assessment.
R&D investment, IP output, technology adoption, knowledge transfer
Startup density, founder culture, SME development, access to capital
Institutional stability, environmental sustainability, crisis adaptability
Public-private coordination, governance quality, policy coherence
Capital flow attractiveness, trade openness, market integration
GDP growth, job creation, quality of life, global competitiveness
IE's Index Registry is the canonical data source powering every IEPA assessment.
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