Czech Republic

The EIS country pages provide for each of the European countries covered by the EIS 2007 a performance chart showing performance by indicator relative to the EU mean, a radar graph showing the innovation performance for each of the innovation dimensions relative to the country’s SII performance and the data tables showing, where available, time series data for the SII, the dimensions and each of the indicators.

More information is available on each country is available in the EIS report and its thematic papers which are available on the INNO Metrics website). The EIS 2007 thematic papers provide information on services innovation, the impact of differences in socio-economic conditions on innovation performance, innovation efficiency and non-R&D based innovation.

The Czech Republic is among the group of "moderate innovators" with an overall innovation performance that is below the EU average but above the level of the "catching up countries". The other EU "moderate innovator" countries with similar levels of performance are Estonia, Slovenia, Italy, Cyprus and Spain. The Czech Republic's innovation performance has improved over the last five years compared to the EU average and its performance would converge with the EU average in about 10 years if current trends continue.

The Czech Republic has a relatively strong performance in the Applications dimension, and has high levels on indicators of sales of new-to-market products, sales of new-to-firm products and employment in medium-tech/ high-tech manufacturing. It has relative weaknesses in the Innovation Drivers and the Intellectual Property dimensions. The Czech Republic has above average efficiency in transforming innovation inputs into Application outputs, but is below average in the efficiency of transforming such inputs into Intellectual Property outputs.