Where does Colombia stand on Experimentation?
This page reads one capability from the published data and is recomputed with every release. It separates what Colombia does, which makes the score, from what the country has, which sits beside the score, and places the country among the 10 countries at the nearest income. The text describes the data and recommends no policy.
What does the score rest on?
The Experimentation score is the equal-weight mean of the positions of six indicators on a 0 to 100 scale that every country sets together. Confidence measures the evidence behind the score and sits beside it as a second number.
The Experimentation score tracks GDP per capita at r = 0.72 across 120 countries.
Observed indicators
- Position on the scale4.7Peer median11.310 peers with a value
Resident patent applications
432 per million people
World Bank (IP.PAT.RESD), 2021
- Position on the scale10.3Peer median24.510 peers with a value
Resident trademark applications
33,617 per million people
World Bank (IP.TMK.RSCT), 2021
- Position on the scale3.9Peer median10.210 peers with a value
Resident industrial design applications
486 per million people
World Bank (IP.IDS.RSCT), 2021
- Position on the scale28.3Peer median13.710 peers with a value
New public software repositories
864,357 per million people
GitHub Innovation Graph (data/repositories.csv), 2026
- Position on the scale71.4Peer median50.71 peers with a value
Early-stage entrepreneurial activity
23.6 % aged 18-64
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (APS key indicators, TEA rate), 2023
- Position on the scale77.5Peer median39.61 peers with a value
Tolerance of entrepreneurial failure
65.1 % not deterred
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (APS key indicators, fear of failure rate), 2023
No comparable source yet, so lowering confidence: venture deals, firms through regulatory sandboxes, and university spinouts.
No condition is published beside Experimentation in this release, so the page shows only the indicators that make the score.
Where does Colombia sit among its peers?
The peers are the 10 countries at the nearest income. Income is GDP per capita at purchasing power parity, in constant international dollars, for the latest year the World Bank publishes, and distance is measured on a log scale, where half and double are equally far. No country is picked by hand, and the set changes when the data does.
In this release peer income runs from US$ 16,155 to US$ 21,178, and Colombia has US$ 18,779 (2025).
- Solid ring: usable or good evidence
- Broken ring: thin evidence, opening further as confidence falls
- The shaded band is the middle half of the set and the line inside it is the median.
- Iran: 55.2
- Mongolia: 55.1
- Moldova: 48.0
- Colombia: 32.7
- Brazil: 28.5
- Ukraine: 24.4
- Armenia: 17.3
- Paraguay: 12.3
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: 8.3
- Egypt: 7.7
- Botswana: 4.1
What separates Colombia from its peers?
Colombia scores 32.7 on Experimentation, above the median of the 10 scored peers, which is 20.9.
Indicators placed above the peer median on the scale: new public software repositories, early-stage entrepreneurial activity, and tolerance of entrepreneurial failure.
Indicators placed below the peer median on the scale: resident patent applications, resident trademark applications, and resident industrial design applications.
Each sentence compares one position with one median. Why a difference exists, and what to do about it, lie outside this data.
What this reading does not show
- A national score is a coarse proxy. A capability forms in firms, cities, networks and groups below the level of the country, and a national average only describes the conditions they work in.
- Peers share income and nothing else. Size, production structure, region and political regime are outside the rule, and a set of 10 countries can change with any revision to GDP.
- An r reads the whole set at once and says nothing about one country alone. A correlation does not show a cause either.
- The known artefacts that bear on Experimentation, described on the limits page: artefact A1.
- And the ones every score in the benchmark carries: artefact A8, artefact A10.