Innovation and Innovation Policy in Luxembourg
Innovation and Innovation Policy in Luxembourg 
Overview of Innovation Policy
Despite its good economic performance (highest GDP per capita in PPS in Europe, high GDP growth rate, low unemployment rate), Luxembourg displays significant weaknesses in innovation performance.
The EIS indicators in 2004 highlighted many areas where Luxembourg is below the EU25 average: public R&D expenditure (but the trend is reversing), engineering graduates; share of manufacturing value-added in high-tech sectors; employment rate in the high-tech sector; high-tech patenting.
The main strengths of the country are the number of non-high-tech patent applications and the number of service sector SMEs that innovate in-house. Luxembourg is also above the EU average regarding business R&D expenditure, SMEs innovating in-house, Internet access and use of ICT.
Two key ministries are involved in R&D and innovation policy: the Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade in charge of innovation policy in the private sector and the Ministry of Culture, Higher Education and Research responsible for the public sector. The Ministry of Small and Medium-sized Businesses, Tourism and Housing, has from now a role in the innovation governance system since it is in charge of the implementation of a new innovation R&D scheme for the Small and Medium-sized Businesses sector.
The current national objectives in innovation policy are to raise investments in R&D to 3% of GDP (increase of public expenditure in R&D); to strengthen innovation in SMEs (set up of an innovation incentive scheme for companies from the Small and Medium-sized businesses sector) ; to foster entrepreneurship (action plan "undertake in Luxembourg"); to increase the number of graduates in Sciences and engineering (creation in 2003 of the University of Luxembourg).
| Annual Country Reports |
 Country report 2009 for Luxembourg
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| Country report 2008 for Luxembourg
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| Country report 2007 for Luxembourg
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| Country Report 2005 for Luxembourg
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| Country Report Luxembourg September 2004
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| Luxembourg - Trend Chart Country Report, September 2003
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| Luxembourg - Trend Chart Country Report, March 2003
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| Luxembourg - Trend Chart Country Report, October 2002
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| Luxembourg - Trend Chart Country Report, May 2002
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| Luxembourg - Trend Chart Country Report, November 2001
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| Luxembourg Trend Chart country Report June 2001
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| Luxembourg Trend Chart Country Report Dec 2000
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| Luxembourg Trend Chart Country Report June 2000
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| Latest TrendChart Deliverables |
| Workshop Briefing Luxembourg 13_2006 |
| Workshop Briefing Luxembourg 11_2006 |
| Workshop Briefing Luxembourg 10_2006 |
| Workshop Briefing Luxembourg 9_2005 |
| Workshop Briefing Luxembourg 7_2005 |
| New Support Measures |
 LU 12 Ecostart - enterprise and innovation centre |
| LU 5 Luxinnovation GIE - National Agency for Innovation and Research |
| LU 18 Innovation Management Techniques training course |
| LU 17 Hosingen relay centre 'Op der Hei' |
| LU 11 Short term patent |
Who Is Who
Senior Official(s) for Luxembourg
Marco Walentiny
Correspondents for Luxembourg
Lionel Cammarata
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Innovation Performance
Performance in Innovation Scoreboard 2008Find Out More
List of relevant websites
