The Global Innovation Index 2025 (GII) takes the pulse of innovation against a background of steady but slow global economic growth, shrinking innovation finance and sluggish productivity. It reveals the most innovative economies in the world, ranking the innovation performance of around 130 economies while highlighting innovation strengths and weaknesses. In the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025, Uganda was ranked 124th out of 139 economies. This places Uganda 19th among the 32 economies in Sub-Saharan Africa and 4th among the 11 low-income economies featured in the index.
The Global Innovation Tracker 2025 shows what is the current state of innovation in Uganda, how rapidly is technology being embraced and what are the resulting societal impacts. Uganda does better in innovation outputs than inputs in 2024.
Uganda’s long-term strategic vision, aiming to transform the country into a competitive upper middle-income economy. Innovation and science & technology are among its priority areas. NDP IV focuses on industrialization, value addition, and the knowledge economy, with Innovation explicitly included among the key growth areas. In addition, the National Industrial Policy 2020 prioritizes manufacturing competitiveness, value addition, import substitution, technology upgrading, cost of inputs (energy, transport), and industrial skills development.
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