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Figure 1. The rate of innovation-active enterprises in total number of enterprises within Innovation core activities
sector, 2008-2010.
Source: prepared by author based on (CIS, n.d.).
As it is shown in Figure 2, the rate of innovative enterprises by the types of innovation in total
number of Sectror innovation-active enterprises in 2008 (Rate2) on the EU-27 scale is
inaccessible. The Rate2 of Germany’s product innovative enterprises was the highest with
23,43%. Among the Baltic countries the Rate2 of Latvia’s product innovative enterprises
reached the highest rate of 17,47%. The reciprocal Rate2 of Lithuania’s product innovative
enterprises was only 5,99% or 3,9 times less than the same of Germany. On the contrary the
Rate2 of Germany’s process innovative enterprises reached 17,11%, the lowest rate among
compared countries data, and it appeared 1,9 times lower than the same of Estonia (32,63%).
The Rate2 of Poland’s organisational and/or marketing innovative enterprises reached the
highest rate of 29,14% among compared countries data.
Figure 2. The rate of innovative enterprises by the types of innovation in total number of innovation-active
enterprises within Innovation core activities sector, 2008.
Source: prepared by author based on (CIS, n.d.).
Following the data elaborated in Figure 3, the share of innovative enterprises by the types of
innovation in total number of Sectror innovation-active enterprises in 2010 (Rate3) of
Germany’s product innovative enterprises increased to 26,05% and yet was the highest among
reciprocal Rate2 and Rate3 data of all compared countries. The Rate3 of Estonia’s process
innovative enterprises reached 28,94% and, thus, was 2,7 times higher than the same rate of
reciprocal Germany’s enterprises. The Rate3 of Latvia’s organisational and/or marketing
innovative enterprises reached the highest rate of 44,00%, ant it was 2,3 times higher than such
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