Sweden

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.

Sweden has the highest overall level of innovation performance of all the countries included in the European Innovation Scoreboard. Other EU countries with the most similar level of performance as “innovation leaders” are Finland, Denmark, Germany and the UK. The growth trend of Sweden’s innovation performance over recent years has been below the average trend rate of the EU.

Among the five dimensions of innovation performance, Sweden performs particularly strongly on Knowledge creation and on Innovation & entrepreneurship: in both cases it is the best performing country. It performs at a relatively lower level in the dimension of Applications, although this is still above the EU average. The analysis of innovation efficiency indicates that Sweden is relatively inefficient in transforming innovation inputs into outputs.