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Innovation drivers (Innovation input): Science & Engineering graduates per 1000 population aged 20-29, share of the working-age population (25-64) with a tertiary education, broadband penetration rate, share of the working age population in life-long learning, percent of youth population (20-24) having completed at least upper secondary education.

Knowledge creation (Innovation input): public R&D expenditures as a percentage of GDP, Business R&D expenditures as a percentage of GDP, share of medium-high and high-tech R&D as a percentage of total manufacturing R&D, share of firms receiving public funding support for innovation, share of university R&D spending funded by the business sector.

Innovation and entrepreneurship (Innovation input): share of Small & Medium Size (SMEs) innovating in house, share of innovative SMEs participating in innovation cooperation, total innovation expenditures as a share of total turnover, early-stage venture capital as a share of GDP, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) expenditures as a share of GDP, share of SMEs implementing non-technological changes.

Application (Innovation output): share of total workforce employed in high tech services, share of total exports from high technology products, share of total turnover from new-to-market products, share of total turnover from new-to-firm but not-new-to-market products, share of the total workforce employed in medium-high and high technology manufacturing.

Intellectual property (IP) (innovation output): The five indicators give measures of IP per million population: European Patent Office (EPO) patents, US Patent and Trademark (USPTO) patents, triadic patent families, new community trademarks, new community designs.

La meilleure performance est notée 1. La partie ombrée au centre de la figure indique la performance moyenne de l'Union Européenne

Note : On pourra trouver le même graphique pour les autres pays d'Europe sur http://trendchart.cordis.lu