5 Most Innovative Countries in the World

#4 Germany

Germany has the fourth largest economy in the world by nominal GDP with a gross domestic product of $4.223 trillion in 2021. The country also spends a lot on innovation given it invested 3.14% of its GDP in 2020 on research and development expenditures according to the World Bank. Germany is also a leader when it comes to science & technology (S&T) clusters with 10 of the top 100 clusters according to GII in the world in the country. That actually ranks Germany higher than Japan in that metric.