Malta

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.

Malta has an overall innovation performance that places it among the group of “catching-up countries”. Other EU countries in this grouping are Lithuania, Hungary, Greece, Slovakia, Poland, Portugal, Bulgaria, Latvia and Romania. Malta’s innovation performance has been increasing in the last five years and if this trend continues it would reach the average EU level of performance in around 20 years.

Malta performs particularly strongly in the dimension of Applications where it is the leading EU country, and where it performs well above EU average on the indicators of Exports of high-technology products, Sales of new-to-market products and Sales of new-to-firm products. It performs at a relatively low level in the dimensions of Innovation drivers and Knowledge creation.