Which of the following statements about India's rank in the Global Innovation Index-2023, published by the World Intellectual Property Organisation, is/are correct? 1. India has been placed at 40th rank. 2. India has been on a rising trajectory over the period 2015-2023. Select the correct answer using the code given below.
- (a)1 only
- (b)2 only
- (c)Both 1 and 2
- (d)Neither 1 nor 2
Correct — C, Both 1 and 2. WIPO's own announcement of the Global Innovation Index 2023 records that India maintains its 40th position overall and leads the lower middle-income group, which settles statement 1. Statement 2 holds on WIPO's own figures too: India stood 81st in the 2015 edition and 46th in 2021, and WIPO's 2021 release says in terms that India has consistently gone up the ranks since 2015, after entering the top 50 in 2020. A climb from 81 to 40 across those nine editions is exactly the rising trajectory the statement describes.
- (a)1 only — Accepts the rank but denies the trend, when the trend is the better documented of the two — WIPO itself has repeatedly noted India's climb since 2015.
- (b)2 only — Accepts the trend but disputes the 2023 rank, which WIPO's release states plainly as 40th.
- (d)Neither 1 nor 2 — Rejects both, which would require India to have been placed somewhere other than 40th in 2023 and to have been sliding rather than climbing.
The Global Innovation Index ranks economies on their innovation performance using a large basket of indicators grouped into innovation inputs — institutions, human capital and research, infrastructure, market and business sophistication — and innovation outputs, covering knowledge, technology and creative outputs. It is published by the World Intellectual Property Organisation, a specialised agency of the United Nations, and was produced for years in partnership with Cornell University and INSEAD before WIPO took it on alone.
The trap in a two-statement item like this is to over-think the second, softer statement. A claim about a 'rising trajectory' does not require the rank to improve in every single year; it asks about direction over a period, and 81st to 40th across 2015 to 2023 is unambiguous. Students should also resist mixing the GII up with the other annual rankings India appears in, each published by a different body and each moving differently. Keep the number time-stamped as well: India was 39th in the 2024 edition and 38th in 2025, so 40th is the answer only for the year the question names.
- India was ranked 40th in the Global Innovation Index 2023 and led the lower middle-income group.
- India's rank was 81st in the 2015 edition and 46th in 2021.
- The index is published by the World Intellectual Property Organisation, formerly with Cornell University and INSEAD.
- India's rank has since improved further — 39th in 2024 and 38th in 2025.
- Demanding a year-on-year improvement before accepting the phrase 'rising trajectory'.
- Attributing the Global Innovation Index to the World Economic Forum or the World Bank.
- Carrying the 2023 rank into a question about a later edition.
As a two-statement item pairing a specific rank with a trend claim. Note the publisher, the year and the exact rank whenever an index appears in the news.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Global Innovation Index is published by
- (a)the World Economic Forum
- (b)the World Intellectual Property Organisation
- (c)the World Bank
- (d)the United Nations Development Programme
Answer(b) the World Intellectual Property Organisation — a specialised agency of the United Nations.
- practice — not a real PYQ
In the Global Innovation Index 2023, India led which income group?
- (a)Low income
- (b)Lower middle income
- (c)Upper middle income
- (d)High income
Answer(b) Lower middle income — India was 40th overall and first in that group.