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.
The 2026 Global Pharmaceutical Innovation & Invention Index.
This year's top-performing companies consistently link platform science to late‑stage execution.
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- Eli Lilly 0
- 2025 1st
- 2024 4th
- 1
- 1
- Merck & Co 0
- 2025 2nd
- 2024 10th
- 2
- 5
- Sanofi 19
- 2025 22nd
- 2024 22nd
- 3
- 17
- GSK 10
- 2025 14th
- 2024 2nd
- 4
- 4
- Regeneron 1
- 2025 6th
- 2024 15th
- 5
- 3
- AstraZeneca 3
- 2025 3rd
- 2024 7th
- 6
- 2
- Roche 4
- 2025 3rd
- 2024 8th
- 7
- 7
- UCB 1
- 2025 7th
- 2024
- 8
- 28
- Johnson & Johnson 1
- 2025 8th
- 2024 6th
- 9
- 6
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals 0
- 2025 10th
- 2024 11th
- 10
- 28
- Eli Lilly 0
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- Eli Lilly 5
- 2025 6th
- 2024 7th
- 1
- 1
- AstraZeneca 1
- 2025 1st
- 2024 3rd
- 6
- 2
- Regeneron 1
- 2025 4th
- 2024 8th
- 5
- 3
- GSK 4
- 2025 8th
- 2024 16th
- 4
- 4
- Merck & Co 2
- 2025 7th
- 2024 2nd
- 2
- 5
- Johnson & Johnson 4
- 2025 2nd
- 2024 1st
- 9
- 6
- Roche 3
- 2025 4th
- 2024 17th
- 7
- 7
- Gilead Sciences 8
- 2025 16th
- 2024 24th
- 25
- 8
- Pfizer 0
- 2025 9th
- 2024 6th
- 16
- 9
- Novartis 12
- 2025 22nd
- 2024 15th
- 13
- 10
- Eli Lilly 5
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Innovation
About the Global Pharmaceutical Innovation and Invention Index 2026
Each year, we ask the question: if you gave the same molecule to two different companies in early phase, who would be more successful—and why?
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Innovation
Freshness Index 2026
How much of each company’s revenues come from products launched in the past 3 or 5 years…?
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Download the report
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
- 5 Disruptive Pioneers in Biotech list
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