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European Innovation Scoreboard 2016
Slovenia Slovenia is a Strong Innovator. Innovation performance has been steadily increasing with minor declines in 2013 and 2015. Slovenia’s relative performance to the EU has improved from 90% in 2008 to 93% in 2015. Slovenia performs close to the EU average with performance for three dimensions being above and for five dimensions being below the average. Particular relative strengths are in International scientific co-publications, New doctorate graduates, and Publicprivate co-publications. Strong relative weaknesses are observed for Venture capital investments, License and patent revenues from abroad, and Non-EU doctorate students. Performance in most dimensions and indicators has improved. The fastest growing dimension is Human resources (6.7%), followed by Open, excellent and attractive research systems (5.0%). The fastest growing indicators are License and patent revenues from abroad (20%) and New doctorate graduates (16%). A strong decline in performance is observed in Non-R&D innovation expenditures (-12%).
Note: Performance relative to the EU where the EU = 100.
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