Eco-innovation index (2013-2022)

This data presents the calculated eco-innovation index score for Member States. ‘Eco-innovation is any innovation that make progress towards a more green and sustainable economy by reducing environmental pressures, increasing resilience or using natural resources more efficiently’ .

The eco-innovation index is based on the eco-innovation scoreboard, which has indicators in five thematic areas:

1) 'Eco-innovation inputs, which includes financial and human capital investment in eco-innovative activities;
2) Eco-innovation activities, which defines the extent to which companies in a given country are active in eco-innovation;
3) Eco-innovation outputs, which measures the output of eco-innovation activities concerning the number of patents and academic literature;
4) Resource efficiency outcomes, which pinpoint a country’s efficiency of resources and GHG emission intensity; and
5) Socio-economic outcomes, which aims to measure the positive societal as well as economic outcomes of eco-innovation’ .