TIRANA, November 3/ATA/ Albania ranks as an innovative developing country with a ranking of 41.7% compared to the EU average.
Our country, for the first time, has become part of the “European Innovation Scoreboard” report, which presents a comparative assessment of the Scientific Research and Innovation performance of EU member states and other European countries of the Western Balkans.
The first group: leading innovator includes countries with a performance above 125% of the EU average. This group includes: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden.
The second group: strong innovator includes countries with performance between 100%-125% of the EU average. This group includes: Austria, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland and Luxembourg.
The third group: moderate innovator includes countries with performance between 70%-100% of the EU average.
This group includes: Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain.
The fourth group: emerging innovator includes countries with a performance lower than 70% of the EU average.
This group includes: Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Albania and Slovakia.
Technologies related to the environment, sales of innovative products, lifelong learning, product innovators, and a highly educated population have had a positive impact on Albania’s ranking./p.s./
