Clarivate Reveals Top 100 Global Innovators 2025

Clarivate Plc NYSE:CLVT, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today revealed its 2025 ranked list of Top 100 Global Innovators - the organizations at the forefront of technology research and innovation worldwide.

The Top 100 organizations prioritize 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 290 billion USD .

New this year: This year, Clarivate analyzes 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.

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.

Gordon Samson , President, Intellectual Property, Clarivate, said, Being recognized as a Top 100 Global Innovator is a remarkable achievement given the pace of change - since 2000, weve 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 organizations target innovation at the deployment and diffusion of technology and knowledge.