Greece

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).

 

For Greece, one of the Moderate innovators, innovation performance is below the EU27 average and the rate of improvement is above that of the EU27. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in Linkages & entrepreneurship, Innovators and Economic effects and relative weaknesses are in Throughputs and Firm investments.

Over the past 5 years, Finance and support and Economic effects have been the main drivers of the improvement in innovation performance, in particular as a result from strong growth in Broadband access by firms (51.6%) and New–to-market sales (32.8%). Performance in Firm investments has worsened, due to a decrease in Business R&D expenditures (-4.5%) and Non-R&D innovation expenditures (-22.7%).

 

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