Lithuania in the News
2nd July 2017
Spectacular Rise in Lithuania's Standing in the European Innovation Scoreboard
Innovation performance of EU Member States. Photo courtesy ec.europa.eu
As announced by the European Commission, the latest results in European Innovation Scoreboard show that Lithuania's innovation standing has risen spectacularly between 2010 and 2016.
It now holds the 16th position in the EU, just short by 2 positions from the EU median and one position behind neighbour Estonia, which is in 15th position. Lithuania is now well ahead of neighbours Poland (25th) and Latvia (24th) and most of the recent EU members, as well as older EU members Spain, Italy and Greece. The top innovator in the EU remains Sweden.
The chart, illustrating the performance of the 28 EU countries according to the European Innovation Scoreboard, shows that Lithuania (LT) had the largest growth (21%) in the innovation score between 2010 and 2016. In the chart the coloured bars represent performance of EU countries with respect to the EU average in 2010 (set at 100), while the grey bars represent their performance in 2010. The horizontal bars show their performance in 2015.

Further information: http://www.investlithuania.com/news/lithuania-rises-dramatically-in-european-innovation-scoreboard/ http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-17-1674_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/23983 http://ec.europa.eu/growth/industry/innovation/facts-figures/scoreboards_en