Cyprus

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).

 

Cyprus is a growth leader among the group of Moderate innovator countries, with an innovation performance just below the EU27 average and a rapid rate of improvement. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in Finance and support, Linkages & entrepreneurship and Innovators and relative weaknesses are in Human resources and Throughputs.

Over the past 5 years there has been strong growth in Finance and support, Linkages & entrepreneurship, Human resources, Throughputs and Economic effects have also been main drivers of the improvement in innovation performance, in particular as a result from strong growth in S&E and SSH doctorate graduates (18.0%), Broadband access by firms (18.5%), Innovative SMEs collaborating with others (12.3%), Public-private co-publications (11.0%), Community trademarks (12.1%), Community designs (30.5%), New-to-market sales (29.1%) and New-to-firm sales (17.7%). Performance in Innovators has worsened (-4.3%).

 

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