THE Philippines jumped from 73rd to 54th place in the 2019 Global Innovation Index (GII) among 129 countries.

The country scored an average of 36.18 this year, higher than the previous 31.56, after getting better scores in 5 out of 8 pillars — institutions, infrastructure, business sophistication, knowledge and technology outputs, and creative outputs.

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