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Export as a Measure of Innovation Performance in the Clean Energy Sector

This report provides technical support for the development of the Clean Energy Innovation Index (CEII), run by the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation.

CEII is a composite indicator aimed at tracking the clean energy innovation performance of EU Member States and Mission Innovation member countries.

It does this by analysing output-related indicators, consisting of three core dimensions: 

  1. Scientific publications
  2. Patents
  3. Trade

As an update to the first report on the CEII published in 2021, the report includes:

  • Data on the Trade dimension of the CEII up to and including 2019, with minor methodological changes compared to the first year of data analysis.

  • The trade dataset used for inclusion in composite indicator calculations.

  • Insights on clean energy innovation performance from the perspective of export-related data and trade flows.

 

CEII report
Export as a Measure of Innovation Performance in the Clean Energy Sector: Assessment of Indicators
Provision of technical assistance and study to support the development of a composite indicator to track clean-energy innovation performance of EU members. 
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Key Findings

Cambridge Econometrics focused on the international trade aspects of the project, analysing export-related indicators as a measure of innovation performance, market uptake of clean energy technologies (CET) and the development of the CET sectors in a country.

The most suitable indicator identified for inclusion in the composite indicator was the CET export value added indicator (measuring domestic value-added content of energy technology-related product exports as a share of national GDP), which provides insights on what are the most specialised countries in terms of domestic value added to exports.
The performance of these countries is primarily driven by exports related to SET Plan Key Action ‘Performant renewable technologies’, and specifically to wind and solar energy technologies.
Based on the 2019 data, Denmark has the highest domestic value added of CET exports expressed in proportion of its GDP (1.2%), closely followed by Slovenia and Slovakia.

A general observation is that EU countries (e.g., Nordic and CEE countries such as Denmark, Slovenia, Slovakia and Czechia) outperform most of non-EU world players in the indicators assessed however, the EU-27 average values for the same indicators are stagnating or are even decreasing over the reference period.

This indicates that the competitiveness of the EU has not improved, vis-á-vis global key players during the observed period.

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