Economic performance and framework conditions for innovation

This chapter gives a short overview of Slovenia’s macroeconomic performance and highlights features of its economic development, including its increasing integration in European and global markets – with increasing openness to international trade and foreign direct investment – and sketches some salient features and patterns of structural change in production and trade. It also addresses the current state of important framework conditions for innovation. It concludes with a discussion of the potential role of innovation in Slovenia’s economic development in the longer term.