LITHUANIA

Lithuania is among the group of Moderate innovators, with an innovation performance well below the EU27 average and a rate of improvement above that of the EU27. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in Human resources, Finance and support and Linkages & entrepreneurship and relative weaknesses are in Firm investments, Throughputs and Innovators.

Over the past 5 years, Human resources, Finance and support and Throughputs 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 (14.8%), Private credit (21.5%), EPO patents (15.5) and Community trademarks (26.8%). Performance in Innovators has worsened, in particular due to a decrease in SMEs introducing product or process innovations (-6.1%).