European Innovation Scoreboard 2024 published

On 8 July, the EU Commission has published the recent edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard which (based on 32 indicators) provides a comparative assessment of the innovation performance of EU Member States and selected competitors. Compared to 2023, fifteen EU Member States saw an increase of their innovation performance in 2024, while it has declined for eleven member states (one, Croatia, remained stable).
 

Globally and Europe wide, South Korea and Switzerland remain the most innovative countries, respectively. China has surpassed Japan and is progressively closing the gap with the EU. The latter faces ongoing challenges in areas such as intellectual assets, collaboration among innovative SMEs and R&D expenditure in the business sector.

Compared to the 2023 Scoreboard edition:

• Denmark remains the most innovative EU country followed by Sweden (which led the rankings between 2017-2022), Finland and the Netherlands (all in the Innovation Leader group).
• The subsequent group of Strong Innovators contains Belgium, Austria, Ireland, Luxemburg, Germany (which slipped from 7th to 9th place), Cyprus, Estonia and France.
• Two countries changed group affiliations: Estonia became a Strong Innovator, and Belgium (which belonged to the Innovation Leaders in 2023) fell to the Strong Innovators' category (while maintaining its fifth position in the overall ranking).

Further informationen can be found here.

Source: KoWi