{"id":6114,"date":"2026-07-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/een.si\/european-innovation-scoreboard-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:00:13","slug":"european-innovation-scoreboard-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/european-innovation-scoreboard-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"European Innovation Scoreboard 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6114\" class=\"elementor elementor-6114 elementor-6079\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ff0685f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ff0685f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fd02463 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fd02463\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ecl-media-container ecl-media-container--custom-ratio ecl-u-mb-s ecl-u-type-paragraph\" lang=\"en\" data-ecl-media-container=\"true\" data-ecl-auto-init=\"MediaContainer\" data-ecl-auto-initialized=\"true\"><figure class=\"ecl-media-container__figure\"><div class=\"ecl-media-container__media\"><div><picture><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"avportal-photo ecl-u-width-100 ecl-u-height-auto ecl-media-container__media--ratio-custom\" src=\"https:\/\/slovenia.representation.ec.europa.eu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/oe_theme_medium_no_crop\/avportal\/P-016345\/00-09.jpg?itok=ttlr_whP\" alt=\"Biotechnology: the research on the production of biofuels from microalgae\"><\/picture><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"ecl\"><p><strong>Europe&#8217;s innovation performance continues to improve<\/strong>, with the overall EU score increasing by 11.6 percentage points since 2019, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu\/statistics\/performance-indicators\/european-innovation-scoreboard_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Innovation Scoreboard 2026<\/a> just published by the European Commission.<\/p><p>This result marks almost a decade of steady growth and highlights the resilience of Europe&#8217;s innovation ecosystem in an increasingly competitive global environment.<\/p><p>Between 2025 and 2026, the EU&#8217;s innovation performance improved by 1.7 percentage points, after also slightly increasing by 0.5 percentage points in the previous year.<\/p><p>While all EU Member States have made progress, performance varies widely between countries.<\/p><p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/slovenia.representation.ec.europa.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Representation in Slovenia<\/a><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe&#8217;s innovation performance continues to improve, with the overall EU score increasing by 11.6 percentage points since 2019, according to the European Innovation Scoreboard 2026 just published by the European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6116,"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions\/6116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/een.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}