Luxembourg

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.

Luxembourg’s innovation performance ranks it among the group of “innovation followers” with an overall performance that is above EU average but below the group of “innovation leaders”. Other EU countries with a similar overall level of performance are Ireland, Austria, the Netherlands, France and Belgium. Luxembourg’s innovation performance has been on a positive trend in recent years compared with the EU average, and it is close to joining the group of “innovation leaders”.

Luxembourg has relative strengths in the dimensions of Innovation & entrepreneurship, Applications and Intellectual property and it has particularly high levels on the indicators of Enterprises receiving public funding, Exports of high-technology products, Triad patents and Community trademarks. The analysis shows that it is among the most efficient EU countries in terms of transforming innovation inputs into outputs.