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Poland is among the group of Catching-up countries, with an innovation performance considerably below the EU27 average but an above average rate of improvement. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in Human resources, Firm investments and Economic effects and relative weaknesses are in Finance and support, Linkages & entrepreneurship and Throughputs.

Over the past 5 years, Throughputs have been a strong driver of improved performance and Human resources and Linkages and entrepreneurship have also been drivers of improvement, in particular as a result from strong growth in S&E and SSH doctorate graduates (12.2%), Public-private co-publications (20.6%), EPO patents (9.0%), Community trademarks (11.1%) and Community designs (27.3%). Performance in Innovators and Economic effects has worsened, in particular due to a decrease in Newto- market sales (-13.4%).

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).