Ireland

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).

 

 

Ireland is in the group of Innovation followers, with an innovation performance above the EU27 average. It is a growth leader within this group of countries with a rate of improvement just above that of the EU27. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in Human resources, Throughputs and Economic effects and relative weaknesses are in Firm investments and Linkages & entrepreneurship.

Over the past 5 years, Human resources and Finance and support have been the main drivers of the improvement in innovation performance, in particular as a result from strong growth in S&E and SSH doctorate graduates (12.8%), Private credit (14.6%) and Broadband access by firms (37.5%). Performance in Firm investments, Linkages & entrepreneurship and Innovators has worsened, in particular due to a decrease in Non-R&D innovation expenditures (-5.7%), Innovative SMEs collaborating with others (-7.0%) and SMEs introducing product or process innovations (-3.3%).

 

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