Global Innovation and Invention Index
The annual ranking of the world’s leading pharma companies by their ability to create new ideas and turn them into value.
2025 Top 10
Although the headline this year is the new number one, six of the top 10 were in the top 10 for innovation in 2024, and only three new companies have entered the Invention top 10. We see continued outstanding performance from companies like Pfizer and Merck & Co.
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- Eli Lilly 3
- 2024 4th
- 2023 6th
- 1
- 6
- Merck & Co 8
- 2024 10th
- 2023 16th
- 2
- 7
- AstraZeneca 4
- 2024 7th
- 2023 3rd
- 3
- 1
- Roche 5
- 2024 8th
- 2023 4th
- 3
- 4
- Pfizer 2
- 2024 3rd
- 2023 1st
- 5
- 9
- Regeneron 9
- 2024 15th
- 2023 12th
- 6
- 4
- UCB
- 7
- 18
- Johnson & Johnson 2
- 2024 6th
- 2023 2nd
- 8
- 2
- Novo Nordisk 8
- 2024 1st
- 2023 19th
- 9
- 30
- Novartis 7
- 2024 17th
- 2023 15th
- 10
- 22
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals 1
- 2024 11th
- 2023 21st
- 10
- 19
- Eli Lilly 3
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- AstraZeneca 2
- 2024 3rd
- 2023 1st
- 3
- 1
- Johnson & Johnson 1
- 2024 1st
- 2023 2nd
- 8
- 2
- Moderna 2
- 2024 5th
- 2023 20th
- 16
- 3
- Roche 13
- 2024 17th
- 2023 11th
- 3
- 4
- Regeneron 4
- 2024 8th
- 2023 3rd
- 6
- 4
- Eli Lilly 1
- 2024 7th
- 2023 4th
- 1
- 6
- Merck & Co 5
- 2024 2nd
- 2023 6th
- 2
- 7
- GSK 8
- 2024 16th
- 2023 12th
- 14
- 8
- Pfizer 3
- 2024 6th
- 2023 4th
- 5
- 9
- BeiGene 3
- 2024 13th
- 2023 7th
- 13
- 10
- Boehringer Ingelheim 4
- 2024 14th
- 2023 15th
- 27
- 10
- AstraZeneca 2
Resources
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Innovation
Launching the 14th annual Pharmaceutical Innovation and seventh annual Invention Index.
AstraZeneca claims top place in the Invention Index and shares joint third place in the Innovation Index with Roche, demonstrating ongoing outstanding performance within the indexes for over a decade UCB enters the Top 10 in the Innovation Index for the first time, reflecting its significant advancements in immunology, neurology, and rare diseases
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Innovation
Freshness Index 2025
How much of each company’s revenues come from products launched in the past 3 or 5 years…?
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IDEA Pharma’s Pharmaceutical Innovation and Invention Index, and their accompanying White Papers, explore the performance of individual companies in much greater detail. By accessing our White Papers, you are given an inside look into our research and findings.
- 1 Methodology and analysis
- 2 Extended profiles of the Top 10 overall companies
- 3 The full top 30 ranking
- 4 The report in full
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