Malta

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 Malta, one of the Catching-up countries, innovation performance is below the EU27 average but the rate of improvement is above that of the EU27. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in Finance and support and Economic effects and relative weaknesses are in Human resources, Linkages & entrepreneurship and Innovators.

Over the past 5 years, Throughputs has been the main driver of the improvement in innovation performance, in particular as a result from strong growth in Community designs (32.4%) and Technology Balance of Payments flows (37.5%). Performance in Economic effects has hardly grown, in particular due to a stronger decrease in New-to-firm sales (-18.4%) than the increase in New-to-market sales (16.3%) [1].

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