Spain remains in the moderate innovator group of the EU and rises to the fourteenth position in 2024
The "European Innovation Scoreboard 2024" highlights Spain's strengths in digitalization, educational level, and resource productivity, while business investment and the inclusion of innovative products and processes by SMEs have been identified as weaknesses.
On July 8, the European Commission published the "European Innovation Scoreboard 2024". This report provides a comparative assessment of the research and innovation performance of EU member states, other European countries, and selected third countries, helping these nations evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their national innovation systems and identify the challenges they need to address.
Similar to previous editions, the "European Innovation Scoreboard 2024" categorizes member states into four innovation groups based on their scores: innovation leaders (performance above 125% of the EU average), strong innovators (between 100% and 125% of the EU average), moderate innovators (between 70% and 100% of the EU average), and emerging innovators (below 70% of the EU average).
Spain remains in the moderate innovator group, alongside Slovenia, Czechia, Italy, Malta, Estonia, Lithuania, Portugal, Greece, and Hungary, with a performance of 89.9%, placing it above the average of the moderate innovators (84.8%). Spain improves its position from 16th in 2023 to 14th in 2024, although still below the European average.
Additionally, Spain experienced steady growth from 2017 to 2024, increasing its overall performance by 9.4 percentage points compared to 2017.
Strengths highlighted include digitalization, educational level, and resource productivity, while weaknesses identified are business investment and the inclusion of innovative products and processes by SMEs.
More information about the "European Innovation Scoreboard 2024,", here.