World Bank maps Romania's innovation system gaps and strengths

The World Bank completed a detailed diagnostic of how Romania's research institutions, businesses, and government agencies work together to develop new technologies and ideas — identifying where the system is weak and where it's strong. This kind of baseline assessment is often the first step before a country redesigns its innovation funding, research priorities, or how universities and companies collaborate.

Romania hasn't had a comprehensive, independent assessment of its entire innovation ecosystem in years; this World Bank report provides the data needed to spot which bottlenecks are actually worth fixing — whether that's research funding, brain drain, industry-university connections, or regulatory barriers to commercialization.