Switzerland remains innovation leader in Europe

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17.06.2019
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The annual European Innovation Scoreboard provides a comparative assessment of the research and innovation performance of EU Member States and selected third countries. Once again, Switzerland is at the very top of the list. The country’s overall performance relative to the EU has improved by 9.2 percent over the past eight years.

In the 2019 European Innovation Scoreboard, Switzerland once more is the overall Innovation Leader in Europe, outperforming all EU Member States with 171 points. Switzerland’s strong performance results from being the best performer on seven of the ten indicators: Human Resources, Attractive Research Systems, Innovation-friendly Environment, Finance and Support, Firm Investments, Innovators, Linkages, Intellectual Assets, Employment Impacts, and Sales Impacts.

Attractive research systems, Human resources and Firm investments are Switzerland’s strongest innovation dimensions. The country scores particularly well on Public-private co-publications, foreign doctorate students, and Lifelong learning. On the other hand, Employment impacts, and Sales impacts are the weakest innovation dimensions.

When it comes to structural differences, many economic indicators are well above the EU average but one number stands out. The share of new enterprise births in the economy with more than ten employees is with 0.2 clearly below the EU’s average of 1.5 percent. This score confirms Swiss Startup Radar’s findings that Swiss startups create fewer jobs in the first 10 years of their existence than other western European countries.

Despite those areas in which improvement is still desirable, the country’s overall performance relative to the EU has strongly improved by 9.2 percent over the past eight years. The remaining top ten countries are Sweden, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Norway and Germany.


(Source: European Innovation Scoreboard 2019)

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