Clarivate reveals Top 100 Global Innovators 2025

Clarivate Plc, a global provider of transformative intelligence, today revealed its 2025 ranked list of Top 100 Global Innovators – the organisations at the forefront of technology research and innovation worldwide.

The Top 100 organisations prioritise innovation as a central part of their business strategy. Their investment levels in science, engineering, product design and problem-solving is, on average, 8.8% of their revenues. Across the Top 100, this was almost US$290 billion.

New this year: This year, Clarivate analyses the convergence phenomenon – the integration of various scientific and engineering fields that promote the spread of innovation into products – through five macro-forces: sustainability, wellbeing, mobility, connectivity and automation. Within the top 0.5% of the most critical and valuable protected ideas, convergent inventions, those overlapping between innovation forces, account for almost 40%.

Geographical spread: Eleven countries and regions are identified in this year’s list – one more than last year. Japan maintains its position as the biggest contributor to the Top 100 entities, with 33 organisations named, although it has seen a decrease of five since last year. The United States has 18 organisations listed this year, Taiwan has 13, Germany and South Korea both have eight, France has seven, Mainland China has six, Switzerland has three, Netherlands has two, and Sweden and Finland, which is back on the list this year, both have one.

Industry sectors: There has been little change in the industry sector representation compared to 2024, with movements up and down by one or two individual representations. Four industry sectors saw an increase and five declined this year. Electronics and computing equipment continues to have the most Top 100 entities, followed by Semiconductors, Industrial systems, and Automotive.

The Top 100 organisations generate US$4.6 trillion in annual revenues, representing 4.4% of the global economy.

Gordon Samson, President, Intellectual Property, Clarivate, said, “Being recognised as a Top 100 Global Innovator is a remarkable achievement given the pace of change – since 2000, we’ve seen an 80-fold increase in the volume of inventions.

“Competition is more global than ever before, and developments in one region can have a significant global impact. Hyperconnectivity and technological convergence play a pivotal role in driving innovation. The Top 100 organisations target innovation at the deployment and diffusion of technology and knowledge.”

Other key findings from the 2025 report include:

Samsung Electronics maintains its position as the #1 ranked global innovator.
Six companies awarded Top 100 status for the first time: Samsung Electro-Mechanics, GE Aerospace, Siemens Energy, CATL, FORVIA and Caterpillar.
Six companies re-enter the Top 100: Nokia, NTT, Micron Technology, TE Connectivity, Quanta Computer and Asus.
16 all-time recipient organisations retained Top 100 Global Innovator status: Samsung Electronics, Honda, Toyota, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Sony, Qualcomm, Toshiba, Hitachi, Ericsson, Dow, Fujitsu, Boeing, Shin-Etsu Chemical, Honeywell and NEC.

The Top 100 Global Innovators rankings are generated by the Clarivate Centre for IP and Innovation Research. Their analyses are underpinned by rigorous research leveraging the proprietary Derwent Strength Index, derived from the Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) and global patent data to measure the influence of ideas, their success and rarity, and the investment in inventions.