FINLAND

For Finland, one of the Innovation leaders, innovation performance is well above the EU27 average and the rate of improvement is also above that of the EU27. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in Human resources and Firm investments and relative weaknesses are in Throughputs and Innovators.

Over the past 5 years, Finance and support, Throughputs and Innovators have been the main drivers of the improvement in innovation performance, in particular as a result from strong growth in Innovative SMEs collaborating with others (12.4%) and Community trademarks (7.0%). Performance in both Firm investments and Economic effects has increased at a slower pace.