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The Czech Republic is among the group of Moderate innovators with innovation performance below the EU27 average but the rate of improvement is above that of the EU27. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in Firm investments, Innovators and Economic effects and relative weaknesses are in Throughputs, Finance and support and Human resources.

Over the past 5 years, Throughputs, Human resources and Finance and support have been the main drivers of the improvement in innovation performance, in particular as a result from strong growth in Community designs (26.0%), Technology Balance of Payments flows (13.1%), S&E and SSH graduates (14.1%), Private credit (11.8%) and Broadband access by firms (40.1%). Performance in Innovators has worsened, due to a decrease in SMEs introducing product or process innovations (-2.6%).

More information on each country is available in the EIS report and its thematic papers which are available on the INNO Metrics website (www.proinno-europe.eu/metrics). Detailed information on policy measures and governance is available at the INNO Policy TrendChart website (www.proinno-europe.eu/trendchart).