Innovation Capabilities Outlook 2026: Key Findings

WIPO ADG Marco Alemán and the Department of Economics and Data Analytics present the key findings from the inaugural Innovation Capabilities Outlook 2026. This first comprehensive mapping of global innovation capabilities, developed in partnership with Harvard's Growth Lab, reveals a stark global innovation divide, quantifies massive untapped potential worth hundreds of thousands of missing innovations annually, and demonstrates how successful economies like Vietnam, China, and India have mastered strategic capability building. Features insights from Professor Ricardo Hausmann and positions the ICO as strategic intelligence for innovation policy and economic development decisions worldwide.