Review of WEF’s “Innovation Ecosystems: A Toolkit of Principles and Best Practice” (2025)
Executive Summary The World Economic Forum’s 2025 report, “Innovation Ecosystems: A Toolkit of Principles and Best Practice,” is the most comprehensive global synthesis to date of how cities, nations, and organizations can build inclusive, sustainable, and high-performing innovation districts. Developed in collaboration with Jacobs, the report offers a framework that integrates governance, placemaking, and digital […]
From Continuity to Crossroads: What Changed Between the 2024 and 2025 Global Innovation Index
Executive summary (the 10 biggest shifts) Top-10 reshuffle. 2025 keeps Switzerland–Sweden–U.S. at the top, but Korea jumps to #4, Singapore to #5, UK slips to #6, Denmark rises to #9, and China enters the Top-10 for the first time; Germany falls to #11. In 2024, the Top-10 ended with Germany (#9) and Denmark (#10). Coverage […]
Unlocking the Global Innovation Index 2024: A 10-Part Series on the Future of Innovation
Innovation has always been the fuel of human progress, but today it is the single most decisive factor shaping the destiny of nations, industries, and communities. In a world defined by uncertainty, from economic slowdowns to geopolitical tensions, climate challenges, and the rise of artificial intelligence, the ability to build and sustain innovative ecosystems determines […]
Regional Collapse We Keep Pretending Isn’t Happening
Something’s gone wrong in the way we structure governance; so wrong that it’s now normalized for elected leaders to turn to govern through coercion rather than consensus So wrong that the people who actually build and sustain the economy (workers, founders, educators, families) are often the last ones consulted about how that economy is governed. […]