Poland among weakest EU countries in terms of innovation: EC
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The EC has published the European Innovation Scoreboard, presenting the results in terms of innovation of EU Member States. Of the 27 Member States, Poland was barely 24th in the ranking prepared by the Commission.
The creators of the ranking emphasize that in terms of implementing innovation, the Community as a whole is doing better than the United States and is recording stable annual growth, but is still lagging behind global leaders – South Korea, Australia and Japan.
Inside the Union, the Nordic countries (Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Denmark) are at the top of the ranking. The Netherlands and Luxembourg are also outstanding countries.
Unfortunately, Poland can be found among the countries that perform the least. Only Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania are less effective in implementing innovation. The Polish result oscillates only within 60 percent of EU average.
To assess the innovativeness of EU countries, the Summary Innovation Index was used, which was constructed on the basis of 27 component indicators related to the four main areas of assessment.
Compared to other countries, however, Poland has definitely managed to improve the most in terms of building an innovation-friendly legal environment. Over the past eight years, our result in this subcategory has risen by as much as nearly 183 percent, that is more than for any other country.
