Science and Technology Cluster Ranking 2023
Access details of industrial designs registered under the The Science and Technology (S&T) Cluster ranking of the Hague SystemGlobal Innovation Index
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WIPO locates and ranks science and technology clusters through a geocoding method, mapping addresses and names pulled from documents to 96% accuracy. Find out more about the S&T Cluster methodology
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Top 100 Science and Technology Clusters worldwide 2023
Main findings
The world’s five biggest S&T clusters
are all located in East Asia
. Tokyo-Yokohama (Japan)
leads as the largest global S&T cluster, followed by Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou
(China and Hong Kong, China), Seoul
(Republic of Korea), followed by China’s Beijing and Shanghai-Suzhou
clusters.
The Cambridge
cluster in the United Kingdom and San Jose-San Francisco, CA
in the United States are found to be the clusters with the most intensive S&T activity
, in proportion to population density, followed by Oxford (UK), Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Boston–Cambridge (US)
.
This year, the GII identifies 24 S&T clusters in China
, up from the 21 last year, as the country boasting the greatest number of clusters
, with Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou, Beijing Shanghai–Suzhou, and Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou and Nanjing leading.
The US has 21 among the top 100
, Germany 9, and Japan, Canada, India and the Republic of Korea each have 4, with San Jose–San Francisco
leading for the US, Munich
for Germany, Tokyo-Yokohama
for Japan, Toronto
for Canada, Bengaluru
for India, and Seoul
for the Republic of Korea.
S&T clusters located in other middle-income economies
besides China also saw strong S&T output growth, notably in India which has four top S&T clusters
, with Chennai and Bengaluru experiencing the biggest increases in density of inventors and scientific authors.
S&T clusters in certain emerging economies
grew at a particularly fast pace, including Brazil
, India
, Türkiye and, beyond the top 100, in Argentina
, Egypt
, Thailand
and others.
Top 100 Science and Technology Cluster briefs 2023
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