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Lithuania is among the group of Catching-up countries, with an innovation performance well below the EU27 average. However, unlike most other countries in this group its rate of improvement is below that of the EU27. Relative strengths, compared to the country’s average performance, are in Human resources, Finance and support and Linkages & entrepreneurship and relative weaknesses are in Firm investments, Throughputs and Innovators.

Over the past 5 years, Finance and support, Human resources and Throughputs have been the main drivers of the improvement in innovation performance, in particular as a result from strong growth in S&E and SSH graduates (10.8%), Private credit (27.9%) and Community trademarks (19.4%). Performance in Linkages & entrepreneurship and Innovators has worsened, in particular due to a decrease in Innovative SMEs collaborating with others (-8.7%) and SMEs introducing product or process innovations (-6.1%).

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).