SLOVENIA

For Slovenia, one of the Innovation followers, innovation performance is just 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 Human resources, Finance and support, Innovators and Economic effects and relative weaknesses are in Firm investments and Throughputs.

Over the past 5 years, 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 Private credit (15.5%) and Community trademarks (13.1%). Performance in Human resources, Firm investments, Linkages & entrepreneurship and Economic effects has increased at a slower pace.