The report ranks Scotland’s innovation performance relative to the European Innovation Scorecard 2004 as follows:Scotland is above average (top quartile) in terms of the overall regional innovation index, and again in terms of those indicators dominated by public investment decisions.Scotland is below average (third quartile) in terms of the key measures of innovation outputs – the share of new-to-the-firm products in manufacturing.Business research and development expenditure in Scotland is below average (third quartile).Scotland has below average (third quartile) employment in medium or high-tech manufacturing although knowledge diffusion among Scottish manufacturing companies is still above average (second quartile).Employment in high-tech services is above average (second quartile), while knowledge diffusion among Scottish service companies are below average (third quartile).Full details of this benchmarking are available at the following web...