MUSCAT: The Sultanate of Oman achieved advanced positions in the Global Innovation Index for 2022 issued by the World Intellectual Property Organization.
It ranked first globally in the science and engineering outputs index out of the total number of graduates and third globally in the government spending index per student.
The index indicated that the Sultanate advanced five ranks in innovation inputs and climbed three ranks in innovation outputs, and its rank in the index was 79 globally out of 132 countries.
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The highest performance in the report was in the human capital and scientific research and the lowest performance in the business environment pillars.
The results of the report showed the progress of the Sultanate, as it ranked 29th globally in the education spending index.
On the technical side, the Sultanate ranked 15th globally in the information technology availability index, 16th globally in the digital applications index, and 24th globally in the digital government services index.
The Sultanate has also achieved advanced ranks globally in a number of business environment indicators, as it ranked 19th globally in the business establishment index, and 19th globally in the foreign capital flow index, and the expenditure on research and development index climbed 19 places to become the Sultanate in the 19th place.
The report revealed missing data in nine of the sub-indicators, such as information about the indicators of the percentage of revenue and receipts of intellectual property fees, the indicator of the percentage of outputs of creativity and cultural services, and the percentage of national feature films production.
The results of the report showed that 21 indicators whose data have not been updated and are usually updated by the competent authorities with those indicators in the relevant organizations. Examples of indicators whose data have not been updated are the indicator of research competencies in private companies, the indicator of the percentage of industries in the field of publishing and printing, and the indicator of the percentage of exports technology out of total exports.
It is noteworthy that the Global Innovation Index consists of 81 sub-indicators divided into innovation inputs that contain five pillars, and innovation outputs that consist of two pillars. This is the fifteenth report issued by the World Intellectual Property Organization since 2007 with the aim of helping policy makers around the world to improve their understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of their national innovation systems, and identify informed policy directions.
