Poland

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).

 

 

Poland is among the group of Catching-up countries, with an innovation performance considerably below the EU27 average but an above average rate of improvement. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in Human resources, Firm investments and Economic effects and relative weaknesses are in Finance and support, Linkages & entrepreneurship and Throughputs.

Over the past 5 years, Throughputs have been a strong driver of improved performance and Human resources and Linkages and entrepreneurship have also been drivers of improvement, in particular as a result from strong growth in S&E and SSH doctorate graduates (12.2%), Public-private co-publications (20.6%), EPO patents (9.0%), Community trademarks (11.1%) and Community designs (27.3%). Performance in Innovators and Economic effects has worsened, in particular due to a decrease in New-to-market sales (-13.4%).

 

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