Draper Hero Institute Updates Monthly Draper Innovation Index US
October 24, 2023
“States Compete to Land in Top Ten of Best Places to Launch a Startup: Shakeup in Top 5; Florida Remains at #1; Colorado Climbs While Utah Falls; California Sinks from 13th to 18th; New York, New Jersey, and Maryland Post Large Declines; Kentucky, Indiana, and Connecticut Climb in Rankings; Massachusetts Sees Small Recovery”
Draper Hero Institute Updates Monthly Draper Innovation Index Global
October 24, 2023
“Nations Compete to Land in Top Ten of Best Places Globally to Launch a Startup: Switzerland Reclaims 3rd Place from Norway; Singapore Climbs in Emerging Innovation; Estonia Falls Out of Top 20; China and Russia See Little Change in Rankings; Honduras, Sierra Leone, Turkey Register Largest Declines ; Nigeria, Oman, Puerto Rico See Biggest Improvements; UK Overtakes Norway for 3rd Place in Government Quality”
Draper Hero Institute Updates Monthly Draper Innovation Index US – May 2023
May 25, 2023
“Texas Regains 2nd Place, Overtaking Utah; South Dakota Jumps Over Arizona to 6th Place Washington Climbs Back into Top 10, Virginia Falls Out; Massachusetts Falls in both DII Balanced and Regulatory & Tax Scenarios; Maryland Posts Largest Declines in All Three DII Scenarios; Alaska and Maine Improve, Indiana and Nebraska Fall”
Draper Hero Institute Updates Monthly Draper Innovation Index Global – May 2023
May 25, 2023
“Switzerland Jumps Over Canada for Third Place; Australia Hurdles Norway, Moving to 6th; Germany Returns to DII Global Top 10, Finland Falls Out; Estonia Continues Improvement to 14th; Suriname and Turkey See Large Declines; Saudi Arabia Sees Large Gain in DII Global Balanced; Brazil Sees Healthy Improvements ; China Continues Slide to 35th in DII Balanced and to 92nd in Government Quality”
Draper Hero Institute Updates Monthly Draper Innovation Index US – April 2023
April 19, 2023
“DII US Top 10 Unchanged in April; Washington Rebounds by 7 Places to 11th; California Improves Slightly from 15th to 14th, while New York Remains in 41st; Maryland Posts Largest Gain in both DII Balanced and Regulatory & Tax Scenarios; Nevada Sees Large Declines Across all DII US Scenarios; New Mexico Jumps in DII US Rankings, Montana and New Hampshire Fall”
Draper Hero Institute Updates Monthly Draper Innovation Index Global – April 2023
April 19, 2023
“Brazil Falls Across All DII Global Scenarios; DII Global Top 10 Remains Steady, with Norway Moving up One Place to 6th while Australia Falls One Place to 7th; Bahrain, Macau, British Virgin Islands, Argentina, and Jamaica See Improvements; South Africa, Malaysia, and Thailand Decline; China Falls Two Places to 30th in the DII Global Balanced Scenario and 12 Places to 89th in the Government Quality Scenario”
Draper Hero Institute Updates Monthly Draper Innovation Index US – March 2023
March 15, 2023
“States Compete to Land in Top Ten of Best Places to Launch a Startup; Utah Overtakes Texas in DII US Top 5; Washington Falls 9 Places Out of Top 10 to 18th, New York Drops 6 Places to 41st; California Remains at 15th, but Drops to 31st in the Regulatory and Tax Scenario; Virginia Breaks Back into the Top 10 at 9th; Nebraska Jumps 8 Spots; Montana Climbs 5; Kansas, Nevada, Oklahoma, and Virginia See Improvements; New Mexico and Maine Fall.”
Draper Hero Institute Updates Monthly Draper Innovation Index Global – March 2023
March 15, 2023
“Nations Compete to Land in Top Ten of Best Places Globally to Launch a Startup - Finland Replaces Germany in DII Global Top 10; Switzerland, Denmark, and Sweden Rise in Top 10; Australia, Norway and Netherlands Fall; Estonia Enters the DII Global Top 20; Lebanon Crashes due to Currency Devaluation; San Marino and Costa Rica See Impressive Gains; China Falls 5 Places to 28th in the DII Balanced Scenario and Declines 20 Spots in the Regulatory and Tax Scenario Rankings from 57th to 77th.”
Draper Hero Institute Updates Monthly US Innovation Index – February 2023
February 15, 2023
“States Compete to Land in Top Ten of Best Places in the U.S. to Launch a Tech Startup; DII US Top 5 Remain Steady Delaware Drops 4 Spots in Top 10, Washington Falls 1 Rank Arizona and Georgia Move Up 2 Spots, South Dakota Moves up 1 California Drops to 15th, while New York remains 35th New Hampshire, Alaska, and Maine Post Healthy Gains Kansas and Tennessee Drop.”
Draper Hero Institute Updates Monthly Global Innovation Index –February 2023
February 15, 2023
“Nations Compete to Land in Top Ten of Best Places Globally to Launch a Tech Startup; Top 10 Sees Switzerland and Netherlands Rise, Norway and Sweden Fall Ghana Continues to Improve in Rankings Seychelles and Turkey Post Largest Declines.”
Draper Hero Institute Updates Monthly US Innovation Index – January 2023
January 18, 2023
“States Compete to Land in Top Ten of Best Places in the U.S. to Launch a Tech Startup; Florida and Texas Remain on Top; Delaware Surges Strongly Back into DII US Top 10, Virginia Drops to 11th ; Washington Moves up 2 Spots to 8th; South Dakota, Arizona, and George Fall but Remain in Top 10; Kansas, Idaho, and Montana Rise Across All DII US Scenarios; Maine, Connecticut, and Alaska Drop.”
Draper Hero Institute Updates Monthly Global Innovation Index – January 2023
January 18, 2023
“Nations Compete to Land in Top Ten of Best Places Globally to Launch a Tech Startup; In Top 10, Australia Jumps to 4th, Netherlands Moves Up; Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, and Germany Drop ; Jamaica Sees Largest Decline ; Ghana and Philippines Move Up; Russia Falls, Remains Near the Bottom of the DII Rankings.”
Draper Innovation Index US Quarterly Review Executive Summary-- Q4 2022
December 12, 2022
“Delaware Falls out of the DII US Top 10; Georgia, Virginia, and Washington Advance in the Top 10; Wisconsin, Nevada, and Ohio Climb the Rankings;; Nebraska, Alaska, Maine and Montana Fall”
DII Global Quarterly Update – Q4 2022
December 12, 2022
“Germany and Netherlands Climb Back into the Top 10; New Zealand and Singapore Fall Out; Australia Falls but Remains in the Top 10, Denmark and Sweden Rise; Uncertainty Ahead for China and Hong Kong Russia Remains Near the Bottom of the DII Rankings”
Draper Innovation Index US Quarterly Review Executive Summary-- Q3 2022
September 26, 2022
“Florida, Texas, Utah (+4), and Colorado (+4) Take Top Spots in DII US Rankings; North Carolina, Arizona, Delaware, and Georgia move into the Top 10; Washington, Wyoming, Massachusetts, and Alaska Fall Out of Top 10, California Declines; Illinois, Wyoming, Massachusetts, New York, North Dakota, and Oregon See Biggest Declines; Maine, Tennessee, Arizona, and Iowa See Biggest Improvements”
DII Global Quarterly Review Executive Summary -- Q3 2022
September 26, 2022
”Russia Dives to Near Bottom of DII rankings; China slides as well; Belarus, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, and Western Sahara Fall Dramatically; Germany, Poland and Iceland Drop out of Top Ten, Singapore Falls from 2nd to 9th - - U.S. remains #1 by a significant margin, while United Kingdom, Norway, Australia, and New Zealand make Significant Gains”
DII Global Quarterly Review Executive Summary -- Q1 2022
July 13, 2022
“Russia Plummets; Moldova, Belarus, and Myanmar See Considerable Declines as Hong Kong Drops out of the DII Top Ten: Among Larger Countries, Turkey, Brazil, South Africa, and Mexico See Largest Gains”
DII US Quarterly Review Executive Summary-- Q1 2022
July 13, 2022
“Florida and Texas Overtake Washington for the Top Spots, California Falls out of the Top 10: Idaho, West Virginia and Oregon See Improvement in the DII US Rankings; Maryland, North Carolina, North Dakota and Vermont Fall”
“Top Ten States See Significant Changes: Florida and Texas Overtake Washington to Become Top 2 States in DII-US Balanced Scenario; Wyoming and Colorado Decline and Fall Behind; Idaho Continues to See Significant Improvement; Tennessee Improves Across All Scenarios; Missouri, New Mexico and Iowa Register Declines on All Rankings.”
May 10, 2022
“Russia Continues Dramatic Fall in DII Global Rankings; Hong Kong Falls out of Top 10 all the way to 29th, Moldova, Belarus, Myanmar and Tonga See Precipitous Decline; Kyrgyzstan Experiences Considerable Rebound.”
May 10, 2022
“Russia Crashes Across All Scenarios Followed by Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Sri Lanka, and Kazakhstan in Draper Hero Institute’s Draper Innovation Index – Global. Turkey, Peru, and Chile Register Considerable Improvements”
April 5, 2022
“Top Ten States See Shake-Up. Vermont Continues to Climb DII-US Ranks; North Dakota Recovers; Idaho, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina also Improve; Iowa, Missouri, and Connecticut Fall in the Rankings”
April 5, 2022
“Philippines, Myanmar, China, Russia, Belarus, and Syria Drop in Draper Hero Institute’s Draper Innovation Index – Global”
March 1, 2022
“Minnesota, Missouri, Idaho and Ohio rise in the DII US rankings; Nebraska, Tennessee, North Dakota, Oregon, and Vermont drop”
March 1, 2022
“Draper Hero Institute Launches Real-Time Updates to the Global Innovation Index”
October 5, 2021
Wall Street Journal. “Washington, Texas, Florida Top New Ranking of Innovation Hubs”
March 26, 2021
“Draper Hero Institute Announces Emerging Programs That Will Launch In 2021”
March 9, 2021