Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou Innovation Cluster Tops 2025 Global Innovation Index

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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News

SHENZHEN, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) — The Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou innovation cluster in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has ranked first among the world's top 100 innovation clusters in the 2025 Global Innovation Index released Monday by the World Intellectual Property Organization.

This cluster has surpassed Japan's Tokyo-Yokohama cluster for the first time and has been recognized as a world-leading innovation hub, demonstrating the strong vitality of scientific and technological innovation in the Greater Bay Area and the dynamic progress in building an international scientific and technological innovation hub.

Prior to this, the Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou innovation cluster had ranked second in the index for five consecutive years since 2020.

According to the Guangdong Provincial Market Regulatory Bureau, this year's innovation cluster rankings take into account a new indicator, namely, the volume of venture capital transactions, which has been added to the existing indicators of the number of international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the number of publications in journals included in the Science Citation Index Extended (SCIE). The new assessment system focuses not only on the creation and deployment of intellectual property, but also on the implementation and realization of the value of innovative results.

This year, the top 100 innovation clusters were distributed across 33 economies worldwide. The largest number of clusters are concentrated in China /24/, the United States /22/ and Germany /7/. –0–

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