Greece

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.

Greece has an overall level of innovation performance that places it in the group of "catching-up" countries. Other EU countries in this group with a similar level of performance are Malta, Lithuania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Portugal, Bulgaria, Latvia and Romania. Greece's innovation performance has remained at about the same level compared to the EU average over the past 5 years.

Greece has a relatively strong performance in the dimension of Innovation & Entrepreneurship where it is above EU average on the indicators of SMEs innovating in-house, innovation expenditures, and SMEs using organisational innovation. It is relatively weak on the Applications and Intellectual Property dimensions. Greece seems to be below EU average in its efficiency in transforming innovation inputs into outputs (both Applications and Intellectual Property).