Innovation Rankings
Revealed: the top 100 most innovative companies in the US in 2023
GlobalData reveals the top 100 most innovative companies in the US based on patent data from the new 3i Framework.
Using GlobalData’s unique data and analysis we can reveal which companies have made the top 100 in the United States in our 2023 Innovation Ranking. GlobalData’s Innovation Ranking uses unique data analysis to highlight the companies at the cutting edge of global business.
The highest scoring company in the United States is Alphabet.
Overall, the company based in the United States with the greatest change in its ranking points in the last five years (in comparison with ten years) is Chembio Diagnostic.
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Methodology
GlobalData’s 3i Innovation Framework identifies companies’ innovation potential using novel sources of data including patents, filings, jobs and deals and ranks them on 19 key innovation quality and strength indicators.
Patents is the primary dataset used, and for each company, we calculate innovation quality indicators using our exhaustive patents dataset, with 130+ million patents.
The indicators are grouped in three main pillars:
- Intensity: a company’s innovation activity and focus
- Impact: the impact of a company’s innovation on other innovators in and outside its sector
- Ingenuity: the originality of a company’s inventions and investments in disruptive technologies
Top 100 most innovative the United States companies
In the below table you can see the top 100 companies based on the latest innovation ranking scores. You can also see how each company ranked in each of the three pillars (intensity, impact and ingenuity) with a darker shade indicating a higher score.
From the data we can see that the company with the highest innovation score in the the United States is Alphabet.
Sector spread
The chart below highlights the industry sector spread of all companies in the ranking that are based in the United States, with darker shades indicating a higher number of companies in that sector.
From the data we can see that technology and communications is the sector with the highest number of companies in the ranking.
Thematic spread
The chart below shows the top 20 industry themes based on the number of active companies based in the United States with activity linked to each theme.
Climate change was the most active thematic area for companies based in the United States.
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