The Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou innovation cluster in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has ranked top of the world's 100 leading innovation clusters in the 2025 Global Innovation Index, which was released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on September 1, 2025.

The 2025 innovation cluster ranking process included a new core indicator, venture capital transaction volume, which was added to existing key considerations of Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) international patent applications and the number of papers each cluster had seen published in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) journals. This year, the world's top 100 innovation clusters are distributed across 33 economies. With 24, China is home to the highest number of these clusters, followed by the United States with 22 and Germany with 7.

                                                                                                                                      Source : Xinhua