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In the Global Innovation Index 2014, which ranks countries according to the level of development of innovative technologies, Armenia is on the 65th place while Azerbaijan hasn’t even been included among the first 100 countries. The details of the ranking can be found here.

It must be noted that Armenia, as it was in the previous year, is the leader of the region.

This year among the top ten countries in the list are Switzerland, Great Britain, Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands. The last countries on the list are Guinea, Myanmar, Yemen, Togo and Sudan.

Out of 143 countries included in the research Azerbaijan ranks the 101st, Georgia – 74th, Kazakhstan – 79th, Belarus – 58th, Kyrgyzstan – 112th, Uzbekistan – 128th, Tajikistan – 137th. Armenia’s regional neighbors Turkey and Iran are ranked the 54th and 120th respectively.

The annual analytical report “Global Innovation Index” is co-published by Cornell University, INSEAD, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO, an agency of the United Nations, UN). The research has been carried out since 2007.