NORWAY

For Norway, one of the Moderate innovators, innovation performance is below the EU27 average and the rate of improvement is also below that of the EU27. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in Human resources and Finance and support 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 Broadband access by firms (9.4%) and Community trademarks (12.1%). Performance in Firm investments, Linkages & entrepreneurship, Innovators and Economic effects has worsened, in particular due to a decrease in IT expenditures (-3.8%), New-to-market sales (-6.5%) and New-to-firm sales (-11.0%).