The Innobarometer, whose 2009 edition was released in March, places Denmark, Germany, Finland, Sweden ant the UK above the EU average when it comes to innovation performance. All of them are however overcome by Switzerland.

A detailed country profile is shown for each country including the relative strengths and weaknesses in innovation performance and its main drivers of innovation growth. For each country detailed data tables are available from the INNO Metrics website (http://www.proinno-europe.eu/metrics)

You can find the detail data table about Switzerland here

Innovation continues to be top of the EU's policy agenda, and the European Commission is continuing its work on a new "Innovation Union" strategy, which will be adopted this autumn and then discussed by the European Council...read more here

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