France

The EIS country pages provide for each of the European countries covered by the EIS 2008:

  • Performance charts for each of the innovation dimensions showing both current and growth performance relative to the EU mean;
  • Performance charts for each of the innovation indicators showing both current and growth performance relative to the EU mean;
  • A data table showing time series data for the SII and each of the indicators.

More information on each country is available in the EIS report and its thematic papers which are available on the INNO Metrics website (http://www.proinno-europe.eu/metrics). Detailed information on policy measures and governance is available at the INNO Policy TrendChart website (http://www.proinno-europe.eu/trendchart).

 

France is in the Innovation followers group of countries with an innovation performance above the EU27 average but the rate of improvement is below that of the EU27. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in the Enablers (Human resources, Finance and support), and Outputs (Innovators and Economic effects) and relative weaknesses are in Firm activities (Firm investments, Linkages & entrepreneurship and Throughputs).

Over the past 5 years, Human resources, Finance and support and Throughputs have been the main drivers of the improvement in innovation performance, in particular as a result from growth in S&E and SSH doctorate graduates (5.1%), Broadband access by firms (16.1%) and Community designs (4.9%). Performance in Economic effects has not improved, in particular due to a decrease in Medium-high & high-tech manufacturing exports (-0.7%).

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