Collaboration between innovative companies and public research organisations
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Innovation
To what extent do innovative companies cooperate with higher education and research institutions? In this data publication, we show an international comparison and the development of the extent to which private parties in innovation cooperate with public parties in research, in this case higher education institutions and research institutes. We also look at the development of the figures between 2006 and 2020.
In short
- The Netherlands scores below the average of the EU-27 in terms of cooperation between innovative companies and higher education institutions.
- Finland has the greatest share in cooperation with higher education institutions, Ireland the greatest in cooperation with other research institutions.
- Dutch innovative companies collaborate more with higher education institutions than with other research institutions.
| 2018-2020 | |
| FIN | 19,3 |
| AUT | 17,9 |
| IRL | 16,4 |
| BEL | 14,5 |
| SVN | 13,8 |
| DEU | 13,2 |
| SWE | 11,5 |
| DK | 10,9 |
| EU-27 | 10,5 |
| GRC | 10,1 |
| FRA | 10,1 |
| CZE | 9,8 |
| NOR | 9,4 |
| NLD | 8,5 |
| LUX | 8,4 |
| ITA | 8,1 |
| POL | 7,4 |
| SVK | 7,1 |
| SPA | 6,8 |
| PRT | 6,7 |
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Source: Eurostat/ based on the CIS-survey
| 2018-2020 | |
| IRL | 13,3 |
| SVN | 10,9 |
| AUT | 10,7 |
| FIN | 10,6 |
| BEL | 10,1 |
| NOR | 9,6 |
| DNK | 8,8 |
| SWE | 7,9 |
| LUX | 7,2 |
| GRC | 7,1 |
| NLD | 6,3 |
| FRA | 6 |
| EU27 | 5,5 |
| DEU | 5,3 |
| POL | 4,7 |
| SPA | 4,6 |
| CZE | 3,8 |
| ITA | 3,7 |
| PRT | 3,6 |
| SVK | 3,3 |
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Source: Eurostat/ CIS-survey
| 2006-2008 | 2008-2010 | 2010-2012 | 2012-2014 | 2014-2016 | 2016-2018 | 2018-2022 | |
| Higher education | 10 | 7 | 11 | 14,5 | 9,2 | 10,2 | 8,5 |
| Research institutes | 7 | 5 | 7,6 | 7,6 | 4,8 | 6,1 | 6,3 |
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Source: Eurostat/ Community Innovation Survey (CIS 2006-2008, 2008-2010, 2010-2012, 2012-2014, 2014-2016 and 2016-2018)
Notes: The graph concerns the percentage of innovative companies collaborating with higher education and public research institutes, as a share of the total number of innovative companies. For the editions 2006-2008 and 2008-2010, only companies with product or process innovations are included. From 2010-2012, companies with only organizational or marketing innovations are also included.
There is a change in the definition of innovative companies for both the 2014-2016 and 2016-2018 editions, leading to a break in the trend.
Analysis
A comparatively small share of the innovative private companies in the Netherlands collaborate with public organizations, whether higher education institutions or research institutes. The share is somewhat higher for the higher education institutions, although the Netherlands is positioned in the lower segment of the ranking. The share of innovative companies collaborating with other research institutes (both public and private) has risen to just above the EU-27 average in 2018-2020.
For an explanation of the used definitions and abbreviations we refer to the webpage Definitions for Science in Figures.