Slovenia

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.

Slovenia has an overall level of innovation performance that places it among the “moderate innovators”. Other EU countries in this group and with a similar level of performance are Estonia, the Czech Republic, Italy, Cyprus and Spain. Slovenia’s innovation performance has been increasing relative to the EU average over the past 5 years and if these trends continue it would reach the EU average level of performance in around 13 years.

Regarding the five dimensions of innovation performance, Slovenia performs particularly well on Innovation drivers where it is above the EU average where it performs strongly on the indicator of Participation in life-long learning. It is, however, relatively weak in the dimension of Intellectual property with low levers on the indicators of US and Triad patents. The analysis indicates that Slovenia is below average efficiency in transforming innovation inputs into outputs.