1. European Innovation Scoreboard European Commission Enterprise and Industry DG EPG DGs meeting, May 2008

2. Measuring innovation performance The European Innovation Scoreboard provides a comparative assessment of innovation performance for: Benchmarking national and EU performance; strengths and weaknesses Monitoring progress; against the Lisbon strategy, broad based innovation strategy, etc. Gaining better understanding and new perspectives

3. Benchmarking: overall innovation performance

4. Benchmarking: four stable country groupings Innovation leaders: Sweden + Denmark, Finland, Germany, Israel, Japan, Switzerland, UK and US Innovation followers: Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands Moderate innovators: Australia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, Norway Slovenia and Spain Catching-up countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Slovakia + Turkey

5. Benchmarking: EU vs US

6. Monitoring progress: trends 2003-07

7. New perspectives: innovation efficiency Innovation efficiency = Inputs (innovation drivers; knowledge creation; Innovation & entrepreneurship) Outputs (Applications + Intellectual Property) Maximising:

8. Measuring innovation: future challenges New forms of innovation –Measuring service sector, user-driven, open innovation, etc. Assessing overall performance –Inputs vs outputs vs outcomes International comparability –International, national, regional comparisons –Common definitions, data availability Dynamics over time –Timely performance monitoring; –Understanding what drives change