DENMARK

For Denmark, one of the Innovation leaders, innovation performance is well above the EU27 average but the rate of improvement is not only below that of the EU27 but virtually zero. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in Human resources, Finance and support and Throughputs and relative weaknesses are in Firm investments, Innovators and Economic effects.

Over the past 5 years, Human resources, Finance and support and Throughputs have been the main drivers of a stagnating innovation performance, in particular resulting from strong growth in S&E and SSH graduates (8.1%), Private credit (8.4%) and Community trademarks (4.9%). Performance in Firm investments, Linkages & entrepreneurship, Innovators and Economic effects has worsened, in particular due to decreases in Innovative SMEs collaborating with others (-8.0%), SMEs introducing product or process innovations (-5.7%), New-to-market sales (-7.7%) and New-to-firm sales (-8.5%).