An international city innovation elevation index was established, which was composed of 5 level one indicators which were innovation resource, innovation expenditure, innovation industry, innovation output and innovation performance separately and 20 level two indicators with standard values. 14 cities or region such as San Jose, San Diego, Austin, Munich, Bremen, Helsinki, Osaka, Aichi, Shizuoka, Shiga, Ulsan, Daejeon, Singapore and Hsinchu were selected. Indicator data of 14 cities from 2007 to 2012 were collected, and analyzed with Qingdao in order to find difference. At last, future development was also discussed.