Spain

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.

Spain’s overall innovation performance places it in the group of “moderate innovators”. Other EU countries in this group and with a similar level of performance are Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Italy and Cyprus. The trend in Spain’s innovation performance has been about the same as the EU average trend over the last five years.

Within the five dimensions of innovation performance, Spain performs relatively well on Innovation drivers where it is close to the EU average and has an above average performance on two indicators: Population with tertiary education and Participation in life-long learning. It is relatively weak in the dimension of Innovation & entrepreneurship with a particularly low level on the indicator of Innovation expenditures. The analysis of innovation efficiency shows that it is above average in transforming innovation inputs into Intellectual property outputs but below average in transforming such inputs into Applications.