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ASTANA – Kazakhstan has climbed eight places to 73rd among 139 economies in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Global Innovation Index (GII) 2026, marking the country’s best result in the past decade. Kazakhstan ranked first among Central Asian countries and second among 11 economies in Central and Southern Asia. Among 35 upper-middle-income e…