EURADA News no. 288

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EURADA-NEWS Nr 288 – 14.3.08
STATISTICS
INNOVATION SCOREBOARD 2007
As a reminder, this yearly exercise carried out on behalf of the European Commission aims at
comparing the performance of the EU member States with the one of third countries (USA,
Japan, Switzerland, Israel, Norway, …).
The gap between Europe and the USA is progressively closing.
The EU Member States are grouped in four categories:
• The innovation leaders, with Sweden as the most innovative country, and other
countries including Denmark, Finland, Germany, Israel, Japan, Switzerland, the UK and
the US.
• The innovation followers include Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Iceland, Ireland,
Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
• The moderate innovators include Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, Norway,
Slovenia, Spain and Australia.
• The catching-up countries include Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Slovakia. Turkey is currently at a lower level of
performance.
The 2007 report presents data on the input/output relations and on non technological
innovation.
Document (only in English) available on request from the Secretariat.
REGIONAL GDP IN 2005
Eurostat has just published the 2005 GDP figures of the European regions (see enclosed
document).
Compared with the 2004 data, the gap is stable between the region with the highest GDP
level (Inner London: 303) and the region with the lowest level (North-East Romania: 24).
Groningen (NL) and Hovedstaden (DK) are accessing the Top 15 of regions with the highest
GDP level, replacing Bremen (D) and North-East Scotland (UK) which are out.
Vest (RO) is no longer on the list of regions with the lowest GDP level. Switokrzyskie (PL) is
just coming.