European Innovation Scoreboard
The European Innovation Scoreboard – previously Innovation Union Scoreboard – provides a comparative analysis of innovation performance in EU Member States, other European countries, and regional neighbours. It assesses relative strengths and weaknesses of national innovation systems and helps countries identify areas they need to address.
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The European Innovation Scoreboard provides a comparative assessment of research and innovation performance and the relative strengths and weaknesses of national research and innovation systems. It covers the EU Member States as well as Iceland, Israel, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey, and Ukraine. It helps them assess areas in which they need to concentrate their efforts to boost their innovation performance. On a more limited number of indicators, available internationally, it also covers Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan, the Russian Federation, South Africa, South Korea, and the United States.
This year’s Scoreboard includes a new forward-looking section focusing on recent developments and expected changes. The section discusses trend performance of the EU compared to that of its main international competitors and expected changes for 20 indicators, including six indicators built on fast-track data from the Community Innovation Survey.
The 2016 Scoreboard shows that the most innovative countries perform best on all measures: from research and innovation inputs, through business innovation activities up to innovation outputs and economic effects, which reflects a balanced national research and innovation system.
By boosting private investment and improving the framework conditions for innovation, the EU has the potential to lead in innovation at the global stage. The EU as a whole is already catching up with global innovation leaders, and in fact the top performing Member States are on a par with the US, Japan and South Korea.
The Commission is taking decisive action to improve conditions for innovation through initiatives such as its Investment Plan for Europe, the Single Market agenda and the Horizon 2020 Policy Support Facility.
Find out more on the following website: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-16-2487_en.htm