ESTONIA

For Estonia, one of the Innovation followers, innovation performance is just below the EU27 average but the rate of improvement is above that of the EU27. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in Finance and support, Firm investments, Linkages & entrepreneurship and Innovators and relative weaknesses are in Throughputs.

Over the past 5 years, Firm investments and Throughputs have been the main drivers of the improvement in innovation performance, in particular as a result from strong growth in Business R&D expenditures (20.0%), Non-R&D innovation expenditures (29.3%), Community trademarks (14.5%) and Technology Balance of Payments flows (16.9%). Performance in Innovators has remained stable.