Croatia

The EIS country pages provide for each of the European countries covered by the EIS 2008:

  • Performance charts for each of the innovation dimensions showing both current and growth performance relative to the EU mean;
  • Performance charts for each of the innovation indicators showing both current and growth performance relative to the EU mean;
  • A data table showing time series data for the SII and each of the indicators.

More information on each country is available in the EIS report and its thematic papers which are available on the INNO Metrics website (http://www.proinno-europe.eu/metrics). Detailed information on policy measures and governance is available at the INNO Policy TrendChart website (http://www.proinno-europe.eu/trendchart).

 

For Croatia, one of the Catching-up countries, innovation performance is well below the EU27 average and unlike most other Catching-up countries its rate of improvement is below that of the EU27. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in Innovators and Economic effects and relative weaknesses are in Firm investments and Throughputs.

Over the past 5 years, Human resources and Linkages & entrepreneurship have been the main drivers of the improvement in innovation performance, in particular as a result from Life-long learning (12.7%) and Public-private co-publications (10.1%). Performance in Firm investments and Throughputs has worsened, in particular due to a decrease in Business R&D expenditures (-3.6%) and Technology Balance of Payments flows (-7.4%).

 

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