CROATIA

For Croatia, one of the Catching-up countries, innovation performance is well below the EU27 average and its rate of improvement is above 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 Throughputs have been the main drivers of the improvement in innovation performance, in particular as a result from S&E and SSH doctorate graduates (10.7%) and Community designs (11.8%). Performance in Firm investments has worsened, in particular due to a decrease in Business R&D expenditures (-3.5%).