Israel
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.
Israel is included for the first time in the EIS. Data availability for Israel is limited to 17 indicators, and data availability is in particular limited in Innovation & entrepreneurship (2 indicators). Comparisons with EU countries should be interpreted with care.
Israel’s overall level of innovation performance places it among the “innovation leaders”, only Sweden, Switzerland and Finland show a higher level of innovation performance. The trend in Israel’s innovation performance over recent years has been about the same as the EU average growth rate.
Regarding the five dimensions of innovation performance, Israel performs particularly strongly in Knowledge creation with a very high level of business R&D expenditures. The supply of S&E graduates is below the EU average and appears to be the weakest indicator within Innovation drivers. Israel’s patent performance is well above average, but the country performs relatively weak on community trademarks and designs. The analysis indicates that it is above average in terms of the efficiency of transforming innovation inputs into Applications.
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Figure 1 Performance chart by indicator |
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Figure 2 Performance chart by innovation dimension |
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Table 1 Performance table over time |
