AUSTRIA

For Austria, among the group of Innovation followers, innovation performance is above the EU27 average and the rate of improvement close to that of the EU27. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in Firm investments, Linkages & entrepreneurship and Innovators and relative weaknesses are in Human resources and Finance and support.

Over the past 5 years, Throughputs and Economic effects have been the main drivers of the improvement in innovation performance, in particular as a result from growth in Community trademarks (5.4%), New-to-market sales (5.8%) and New-to-firm sales (7.1%). But also Human resources, Finance and support, Firm investments and Linkages & entrepreneurship have shown a steady and substantial improvement. Performance in Innovators however has slightly worsened.