The Innovation Ecosystem Prosperity Assessment measures how well an economy turns its capabilities into prosperity. Six zones, each scored 0 to 100, combine into one composite, and every score carries a confidence band. This is how to read it, and how it's built.
It's built for the institutions that make investment and development decisions: governments, investment promotion agencies, development finance, universities and investors. And it goes deliberately deep where other indices are thin: most of the economies it covers are emerging and developing markets, scored with honest confidence rather than left out.
Every scored economy gets the same readout. Five things to look at, in this order. Switch the specimen to see how differently the same layout reads.
Each zone is scored 0 to 100 on its own. Read these first: they show where the system converts well and where it stalls.
The lowest-scoring zone, highlighted. The first place to look when capability isn't turning into prosperity.
The six zones combined by weight into one 0 to 100 number. Always published alongside the zones, never in place of them.
How solid the score is, from 0 to 1. At 0.85 and above it's solid; below 0.60 it's flagged.
Which evidence set the economy is scored on, which year you're reading, and where it sits among all 117.
The Foundations are what an economy builds. The Engine is how those foundations attract investment. The Outcomes are what people actually experience. The large number on each tile is its weight, its share of the composite. The bar underneath shows the median score across all 117 economies. Tap a tile.
How effectively the foundations convert into inbound investment: investment inflows relative to the size of the economy, openness to trade, logistics and investor confidence.
The same recipe runs for Singapore and for Kenya. Nothing is hand-tuned for a single market.
Each indicator is normalized to 0 to 100, with direction handled so higher always means better. A lower unemployment rate scores higher, for example.
A zone score is the weighted average of the most recent reading of each of its indicators, looking back up to four years so one late release doesn't blank a score.
The zones combine by weight: 16, 12, 12, 10, 20 and 30 points. If a zone has no evidence, the other weights are rescaled instead of a number being invented.
Every score gets a confidence band, and the lowest zone is named as the binding constraint, so the number is never read without its context.
Open any zone on a market profile to see the indicators, their data year and the normalized values behind the number.
A single number hides the thing that matters most: where an economy is stuck. These economies share a composite, yet they have opposite shapes and need opposite strategies. The hatched bar marks each one's binding constraint.
Cambodia spans 50 points, from FDI Accelerator at 75.5 down to its binding constraint, Innovation Capacity at 25.9.
Philippines spans 14 points, from Prosperity Outcomes at 55.3 down to Entrepreneurship Capacity at 41.8. Same headline, a different first move.
Every score carries a confidence value from 0 to 1. Half of it reflects how much of the expected evidence is present, three tenths the quality tier of that evidence and one fifth how recent it is, all scaled by how much of the composite's weight is actually covered.
Deep, recent evidence across the zones.
Scored with some gaps or older evidence. Read with care.
Thin evidence. Published so the economy isn't invisible, and flagged so it isn't over-read.
Economic evidence is published with a lag, so the IEPA separates a final edition from current estimates. Here are real trajectories: solid through the 2024 final edition, dashed where the evidence is still arriving.
The most recent year IE treats as complete. The headline year on every profile.
Built from each indicator's most recent reading within four years. They firm up as evidence arrives.
Every score is recalculated weekly, so a profile is always the current reading.
The underlying evidence is refreshed as new editions are released, typically once a year.
It isn't a verdict on a country. It shows where an economy's system converts well and where it stalls.
It's evidence to inform strategy, used alongside local knowledge.
Scores update as new evidence is published, so a profile is a current reading, not a permanent grade.
IE builds regional assessments, dashboards and innovation programs on this method.