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The Basque Country consolidated its position among strong innovator countries according to the Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) 2025 (10/30/2025)

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The main objective of the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) is to carry out a comparative analysis of innovation performance of the member states of the EU-27 and to know the strengths and weaknesses of research and innovation systems. It is built on four main blocks, with twelve dimensions, for a total of 32 indicators, from which a composite index is calculated which reflects the weight of the different dimensions. Depending on the rating scored in the composite index, the countries are grouped into four categories: innovation leader countries, countries with high innovation, countries with moderate innovation and countries with modest innovation. The performance of the Basque Country is compared to the EU-27 as a whole.

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Panel of innovation indicators (EIS) (C.A Euskadi)
	Unit base	Period (P)	Data	Previous data (P-1)	Statistics	XLS	CSV	Methodology
EUROPEAN PANEL OF INNOVATION INDICATORS (EIS 2025)
Summary Innovation Index	Synthetic average		0.6	0.59
FRAMEWORK CONDITIONS
1. Framework conditions	Synthetic average		0.69	0.67
1.1. Human resources	Synthetic average		0.78	0.75
1.1.1. New doctorate graduates STEM (‰ population aged 25-34)	‰	2022	1.31	1.24
1.1.2. Percentage population aged 25-34 having completed tertiary education	%	2024	62.4	61.8
1.1.3. Percentage population aged 25-64 participating in lifelong learning	%	2024	14.1	13.5
1.2. Attractive research systems	Synthetic average		0.56	0.55
1.2.1. Ïnternational scientific co-publications per million population	Quotient	2024	2,003.02	1,978.25
1.2.2. Scientific publications among the top 10% most cited publications worldwide as % of total scientific publications of the country	%	2022	9.73	9.78
1.2.3. Doctors from outside the EU as % of total doctorate students of the country	%	2023	31.58	30.41
1.3. Digitalization	Synthetic average		0.77	0.75
1.3.1. High-speed internet access (Homes)	%	2023	87.69	85.9
1.3.2. People with digital skills superior to basics	%	2023	36.84	35.93
INVESTMENT
2. Investment	Synthetic average		0.62	0.61
2.1. Finance and support	Synthetic average		0.54	0.51
2.1.1. Public R&D expenditures as % of GDP	%	2023	0.49	0.47
2.1.2. Venture capital as % of GDP (*)	%	2024	0.1	0.07
2.1.3. Public policies of direct financing and tax support for companies that invest in R&D	%	2022	0.33	0.33
2.2. Firm investments	Synthetic average		0.7	0.7
2.2.1. R&D expenditure in the business sector as % of GDP	%	2023	1.66	1.6
2.2.2. Non R&D innovation expenditures as % of turnover	%	2022	0.61	0.69
2.2.3. Innovation spending per employee in innovative companies	%	2022	14,786.73	12,161.7
2.3. Investments in information technologies	Synthetic average		0.62	0.63
2.3.1.Cloud computing in enterprises	%	2023	48.8	48.8
2.3.2. ICT employees	%	2024	4.65	4.84
INNOVATION ACTIVITIES
3. Innovation activities	Synthetic average		0.45	0.43
3.1. Innovators	Synthetic average		0.45	0.42
3.1.1. Innovative product SMEs as % of SMEs	%	2022	26.22	25.58
3.1.2. Innovative business process SMEs as % of SMEs	%	2022	32.89	30.52
3.2. Collaborations	Synthetic average		0.64	0.57
3.2.1. Innovative SMEs collaborating with others companies as % of SMEs	%	2022	19.87	18.12
3.2.2. Public-private co-publications per million population	Quotient	2024	377.07	338.85
3.2.3. Labour mobility in science and technology	%	2020	0	0
3.3. Knowledge assets	Synthetic average		0.32	0.34
3.3.1. PCT patent applications per billion GDP (in PPP euros)	Quotient	2022	1.33	1.57
3.3.2. EU trademark applications per billion GDP (in PPP euros)	Quotient	2023	5.25	5.72
3.3.3. Community designs per billion GDP (in PPP euros)	Quotient	2023	1.16	1.3
IMPACTS
4. Impacts	Synthetic average		0.44	0.61
4.1. Sales and employment impacts	Synthetic average		0.59	0.6
4.1.1. Sales of new-to-market and new-to-enterprise innovations as % of turnover	%	2022	14.36	14.9
4.1.2. Employment in innovative enterprises	%	2022	58.51	58.04
4.2. Trade impacts	Synthetic average		0.6	0.62
4.2.1. Medium and high medium technology products exports as % of total exports	%	2024	52.25	51.84
4.2.2. High-knowledge services exports as % of total services exports	%	2023	35.86	36.74
4.2.3. High tech imports from partners outside of the EU	%	2020	15.79	14.07
4.3. Resources and labour productivity	Synthetic average		0.75	0.62
4.3.1. Resource productivity	Quotient	2022	3.79	2.94
4.3.2. Production-based CO2 productivity	Quotient	2023	0	0
4.3.3. Labour productivity	%	2024	51.63	51.63
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