WHAT TO DO TO IMPROVE THE INTERNATIONAL SAUDI INNOVATION RANK/SCORE

The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that contributed positively towards improve the international rank of Saudi Arabia. By international rank we mean the annual score that issued by the Global Innovation Index for countries. A systematic methodology have been used to conduct the research starting by collected data from the last reports, conducting the literature review, analysing the data statistically and concluding the significant factors. The analysis suggests that the most significant factors are Infrastructure, Market sophistication, Business sophistication, Creative Output. The author have selected to discuss the score rather than the rank because the score is driven by the 80 factors that represent the capability of the country; whereas the rank is always subject to other countries weather they are good or bad