Romania’s Sustainability in European Context Seen from the Point of View of Energy Consumption, Innovation and Education

Competitiveness, energy consumption, sustainable development, inclusive development, innovation In the context of sustainable development, national competitiveness and sustainability became a fundamental preoccupation for emerging countries and the advanced countries. Romania has lately appeared in reports of European and international bodies that try to make rankings and to identify solutions to increase competitiveness. This paper is emphasizing, by comparison, Romania’s national and sectorial competitiveness, in European context, from the point of view of the productivity of the use of energy resources, of the amount of consumed energy, of the inclusive development index, of the percentage of companies with innovative products and/or processes and of the main indicators in education.