Denmark

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.

Denmark is amongst the “innovation leaders” with an overall innovation performance well above the EU average. Other EU countries in this group are Sweden, Finland, Germany and the UK. Denmark has a negative trend in its innovation performance over the past 5 years compared to the EU average.

Denmark has the highest position in the Innovation Drivers dimension of innovation, where it is particularly strong on the indicators of population with tertiary education, broadband penetration rate, and participation in life-long learning. It has a relative weakness in the Applications dimension where it is below the EU average,  where it is below average on indicators of exports of high technology products, sales of new-to market products, sales of new-to-firm products and employment in medium-high/ high tech manufacturing. Denmark is above the EU average in its efficiency of transforming innovation inputs into outputs (both Applications and Intellectual Property).