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8.5 Figure 4 shows India’s performance on the GII 2020 (rank) across the seven pillars. India
performed best on the knowledge & technology outputs (KTO) pillar (rank 27) followed by
Market Sophistication pillar (rank 31). India performed lowest on the Infrastructure pillar
(rank 75).

Figure 4: India’s performance on pillars of the Global Innovation Index 2020 (rank)

Source: GII 2020 Report

8.6 India’s performance in innovation outputs is driven by its competencies. India ranks
tenth in the Knowledge Diffusion sub-pillar of the KTO pillar. India’s first rank in the
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) services exports as per cent of total
trade shows its leadership in the global ICT services industry. India ranks ninth in terms
of productivity growth (growth rate of GDP PPP per worker). It is ranked 21 for citable
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documents as well as cultural and creative services exports. India has the distinction of
ranking 31 in global brand value by producing many more valuable brands than expected
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for its income level.

8.7 India has performed impressively in innovation inputs such as domestic market scale (rank
three) facilitating its overall rank of 15 in the Trade, Competition and Market Scale sub-pillar.
Other leading innovation inputs for India include government’s online service (rank nine),
graduates in science and engineering (rank 12), ease of protecting minority investors (rank 13),
e-participation (rank 15), average exports of top three global R&D companies (rank 16) and
average score of top 3 universities in the QS university rankings (rank 22).

8.8 Figure 5 takes a closer look at India’s performance on the GII and its sub-indices vis-à-
vis the top 10 economies in terms GDP (Current US$). India performs above expectation for
its level of development (per capita GDP) on the GII as well as the Innovation Output and
Innovation Input sub-indices.