accelerated by the forces of globalization. These transition economies can serve as laboratories for understanding the innovation … innovation system development in the context of small catching-up economies. Smallness, path dependency, and latecomer status of … such economies create some inherent limitations for their innovation systems, but these special characteristics can offer …

This paper bridges two approaches to assess national innovation performance based on European Innovation Scoreboard … is on analysing the innovation performance of the Baltic States – small countries with similar post-socialist path … dependence. Our aim is to explore what factors have been most influential in developing the different levels of innovation …