Luxembourg

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).

 

For Luxembourg, one of the Innovation followers, innovation performance is above the EU27 average but the rate of improvement is slightly below that of the EU27. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in Throughputs and Innovators and relative weaknesses are in Human resources, Firm investments and Linkages & entrepreneurship.

Over the past 5 years, 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 Private credit (16.8%), Broadband access by firms (20.0%) and Community designs (13.5%). Performance in Firm investments, Linkages & entrepreneurship, Innovators and Economic effects has worsened, in particular due to a decrease in Public-private co-publications (-14.3%), Employment in medium-high & high-tech manufacturing  (-6.4%) and New-to-firm sales (-8.0%).

 

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