ccording to the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s (WIPO) 2022 Global Innovation Index (GII), Japan is the world’s 13th most innovative country and fourth most across Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Oceania. Japan is a “leader in innovation,” according to the index’s measurement of innovation and economic development, and it scores amongst the highest in the world for how effectively it converts high-cost innovation investments into high-quality products. Japan also scores highly in R&D, ranking fourth globally, as well as human capital, where it ranks
