Regional Innovation Index: Regional champions within national Innovation Systems
We look at the most innovative regions in Europe with the aim of detecting and describing the distinguished features of
their innovation profiles, and to reach a workable synthesis of such a multi-faceted phenomenon called innovation.
Composite indicators seem to be the natural candidates for this job as they ideally measure multi-dimensional concepts
which cannot be captured by a single variable. In the first part of the report we carry out a robustness testing and the
sensitivity analysis of the computed composite indicator. The report examines a large basket of possible meaningful
alternatives and tests robustness as well as sensitivity both in a deterministic as well as in a probabilistic setting. In the
second part of the report, written by one of the authors, we look at composites from the point of view of the policymaking
process. Policy-makers in Europe are re-framing policy goals within the Europe 2020 strategy. The attention on
innovation is moving from the simple ‘fostering innovation’ objectives, towards the more complex and interdependent
goals of ‘gaining value from knowledge’. The declination of this new attention has been on entrepreneurship and
human capital instead of simply raising R&D expenditures and patent applications
BRAMANTI Alberto;
TARANTOLA Stefano;
2013-01-06
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC76795
978-92-79-27357-5,
1831-9424,
EUR 25594 EN,
OP LB-NA-25594-EN-N,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC76795,
10.2788/66315,
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