GII

The highest overall ranking this year goes to Switzerland with a score of 67.24, the ninth straight time the European country has topped the GII. Sweden, the United States, the Netherlands and Britain followed Switzerland in the ranking accordingly.

Joey Salceda attributed the higher GII ranking to new legislation in science and technology supported by the DOST.

This year, the GII puts the country's performance at 54th out of the 129-a huge jump from last year's 73rd spot.

"Our Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program or SETUP has helped many MSMEs improve their productivity and competitiveness that address the GII criteria on technology absorption and technology diffusion."

Only thee Central Asia's nations were put on the GII list: Tajikistan; Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

Providing 80 detailed metrics for 129 economies, the GII has become one of the leading references for measuring an economy's innovation performance.

'The Palace notes that the Philippines has jumped to 54th place among 129 countries in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2019 with a score of 36.18,' Panelo said in a statement.

The GII ranking correlates heavily with the levels of economic development.

The GII portfolio in the UK is worth Au330 million, equivalent to approximately $420 million, distributed among income-generating properties leased to high-net-worth companies, said a statement from the organisation.

GII has become one of the key features in shaping how Oman will look like in 2040.

The top 3 circulating norovirus genotypes were GII.Pe-GII.4 (n = 657; 51.8%), GILP17-GIL17 (n = 191; 15.1%), and GII.P16-GII.2 (n = 136; 10.7%).