Finland

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.

Finland ranks behind Sweden as the most innovative country in the EU and is among the group of “innovation leaders”. Besides Sweden, other EU countries with a similar overall performance as “innovation leaders” are Denmark, Germany and the UK. Finland’s innovation performance has decreased over the last 5 years relative to the average EU trend.

Finland is among the top three EU countries in the dimensions of Innovation Drivers, Knowledge Creation and Applications and it is among the top three European countries in the indicators of Tertiary education, Public and business R&D expenditures, Early-stage venture capital, and patenting. Its weakest performance is in Intellectual Property where it is below EU average on the indicator of Community industrial designs. The analysis indicates that it is above average in terms of the efficiency of transforming innovation inputs into outputs.