Where does Portugal stand on Experimentation?
This page reads one capability from the published data and is recomputed with every release. It separates what Portugal does, which makes the score, from what the country has, which sits beside the score, and places the country among the 10 countries at the nearest income. The text describes the data and recommends no policy.
What does the score rest on?
Confidence is in the thin band, so the score rests on little evidence.
The Experimentation score is the equal-weight mean of the positions of four indicators on a 0 to 100 scale that every country sets together. Confidence measures the evidence behind the score and sits beside it as a second number.
The Experimentation score tracks GDP per capita at r = 0.72 across 120 countries.
Observed indicators
- Position on the scale38.1Peer median22.910 peers with a value
Resident patent applications
711 per million people
World Bank (IP.PAT.RESD), 2021
- Position on the scale48.9Peer median18.09 peers with a value
Resident trademark applications
32,344 per million people
World Bank (IP.TMK.RSCT), 2021
- Position on the scale40.9Peer median20.510 peers with a value
Resident industrial design applications
1,008 per million people
World Bank (IP.IDS.RSCT), 2021
- Position on the scale40.8Peer median23.210 peers with a value
New public software repositories
251,156 per million people
GitHub Innovation Graph (data/repositories.csv), 2026
- Position on the scaleno valuePeer median12.31 peers with a value
Early-stage entrepreneurial activity
no value
- Position on the scaleno valuePeer median66.41 peers with a value
Tolerance of entrepreneurial failure
no value
No comparable source yet, so lowering confidence: venture deals, firms through regulatory sandboxes, and university spinouts.
No condition is published beside Experimentation in this release, so the page shows only the indicators that make the score.
Where does Portugal sit among its peers?
The peers are the 10 countries at the nearest income. Income is GDP per capita at purchasing power parity, in constant international dollars, for the latest year the World Bank publishes, and distance is measured on a log scale, where half and double are equally far. No country is picked by hand, and the set changes when the data does.
In this release peer income runs from US$ 37,851 to US$ 46,925, and Portugal has US$ 42,577 (2025).
- Solid ring: usable or good evidence
- Broken ring: thin evidence, opening further as confidence falls
- The shaded band is the middle half of the set and the line inside it is the median.
- Latvia: 43.2
- Portugal: 42.2
- Estonia: 40.2
- Russia: 35.6
- Poland: 32.5
- Hungary: 26.2
- Greece: 23.0
- Slovakia: 21.2
- Croatia: 20.5
- Romania: 18.1
- Kazakhstan: 14.0
What separates Portugal from its peers?
Portugal scores 42.2 on Experimentation, above the median of the 10 scored peers, which is 24.6.
Indicators placed above the peer median on the scale: resident patent applications, resident trademark applications, resident industrial design applications, and new public software repositories.
Each sentence compares one position with one median. Why a difference exists, and what to do about it, lie outside this data.
What this reading does not show
- A national score is a coarse proxy. A capability forms in firms, cities, networks and groups below the level of the country, and a national average only describes the conditions they work in.
- Peers share income and nothing else. Size, production structure, region and political regime are outside the rule, and a set of 10 countries can change with any revision to GDP.
- An r reads the whole set at once and says nothing about one country alone. A correlation does not show a cause either.
- The known artefacts that bear on Experimentation, described on the limits page: artefact A1.
- And the ones every score in the benchmark carries: artefact A8, artefact A10.