Lithuania

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.

Lithuania has an overall innovation performance that places it among the group of “catching- up countries” with a performance that is well below EU average but increasing towards the EU average over time.  Other EU countries within this group and with a similar level of performance are Malta, Latvia, Hungary, Greece, Slovakia, Poland, Portugal, Bulgaria and Romania. Over the past 5 years Lithuania’s innovation performance has increased rapidly and based on this trend it would reach the EU average level of performance within ten years.

Lithuania performs particularly strongly on the dimension of Innovation drivers, where it is above EU average on the indicators of S&E graduates, Population with tertiary education and Youth education attainment level. It performs at a relatively low level on the dimension of Intellectual property. The analysis indicates that Lithuania is less efficient than EU average in transforming innovation inputs into outputs.