{"id":88328,"date":"2019-03-03T07:42:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T15:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/these-are-the-20-most-innovative-countries-in-europe"},"modified":"2019-03-03T07:42:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T15:42:56","slug":"these-are-the-20-most-innovative-countries-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/these-are-the-20-most-innovative-countries-in-europe","title":{"rendered":"These are the 20 most innovative countries in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-are-the-20-most-innovative-countries-in-europe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published with the aim of highlighting to EU member countries the areas which they ought to focus on improving, the European Commission has released its 2018 ranking on innovation in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Elzbieta Bi\u00e9nkowska commented on the rankings in a <a href=http:\/\/europa.eu\/rapid\/press-release_IP-18-4223_en.htm >European Commission press release<\/a>, saying: \u201cThe 2018 scoreboard shows again that Europe has a wealth of talent and entrepreneurial spirit, but we must do better at turning this excellence into success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Europe has managed to maintain its footing in terms of world innovation, China is fast closing the gap, with its rate of innovation growing up to three times faster than that of the EU. To produce the ranking, the Commission gives points based on a number of factors \u2014 including whether the country has an \u201cinnovation-friendly environment\u201d, a country\u2019s human capital, public expenditure on innovation and related investments made by private companies.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/here-are-the-20-most-innovative-countries-in-europe-2018-7?r=US&IR=T&utm_content=buffer1f6b8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-ti\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/here-are-the-20-most-innovat...=buffer-ti<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published with the aim of highlighting to EU member countries the areas which they ought to focus on improving, the European Commission has released its 2018 ranking on innovation in Europe. The commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Elzbieta Bi\u00e9nkowska commented on the rankings in a European Commission press release, saying: \u201cThe 2018 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}