[The Global Innovation Index 2024 (GII) takes the pulse of innovation against a background of stagnant global economic growth, sinking innovation finance, and sluggish productivity growth. Tracking the most recent global innovation trends, the GII finds that innovation investments have slowed in 2023, making the outlook for 2024 and 2025 more uncertain than ever. Yet, the picture is not entirely bleak. Technological progress and adoption continue unabated in fields as diverse as supercomputing, connectivity, health and green technologies. The thematic focus of the report is on social entrepreneurship. It looks at how a flurry of new ventures are finding innovative solutions directly addressing critical societal issues. It makes an attempt to help innovation policymakers and innovation support schemes to adjust to this new reality, with a view of better scaling social entrepreneurship ventures for improved systemic impact. At its core, the GII 2024 reveals who is leading in global innovation, ranking the innovation performance of 133 economies and highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. Governments around the world use the GII to benchmark innovation performance and improve innovation policy and its impact. The underlying 133 interactive GII economy profiles can be accessed in an interactive manner at www.wipo.int/gii-ranking. The full report can be downloaded at www.wipo.int/global_innovation_index.]