Romania in the Context of European Innovation and Marketing of Intellectual Output

The most recent snapshot of European Union's innovation landscape, i.e. the Innovation Union Scoreboard 2013 report, sets out a series of innovation indicators which, when related to Romania's relevant results, are somewhat surprising. We specifically refer to the license and patent revenues from abroad indicator, where the growth recorded by Romania was the highest at EU level (i.e. 23.4%, whereas the Union's average was 6.1%). With regards to the 2013 data, one can observe a certain discrepancy between the excellent results in terms of innovation commercialization and Romania'sconstant position of modest innovator, with aggregated results well below the EU average. In this context, we analyze the aforementioned results, relative to the innovation landscape at national level, researching the operational and statistic premises thereof, as well as those related to specific policies in place, in an attempt to identify the explanation of such performances, while also testing their sustainability in the wider context of the innovation sector.