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European Commission. Enterprise and Industry DG . European Innovation Scoreboard. EPG DGs meeting, May 2008 . Measuring innovation performance. The European Innovation Scoreboard provides a comparative assessment of innovation performance for:
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European Commission Enterprise and Industry DG European Innovation Scoreboard EPG DGs meeting, May 2008
Measuring innovation performance The European Innovation Scoreboard provides a comparative assessment of innovation performancefor: • Benchmarking national and EU performance; strengths and weaknesses • Monitoring progress; against the Lisbon strategy, broad based innovation strategy, etc. • Gaining better understanding and new perspectives
Benchmarking: four stable country groupings • Innovation leaders: Sweden + Denmark, Finland, Germany, Israel, Japan, Switzerland, UK and US • Innovation followers: Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands • Moderate innovators: Australia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, Norway Slovenia and Spain • Catching-up countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Slovakia + Turkey
New perspectives: innovation efficiency Innovation efficiency = Maximising: Inputs (innovation drivers; knowledge creation; Innovation & entrepreneurship) Outputs (Applications + Intellectual Property)
Measuring innovation: future challenges • New forms of innovation • Measuring service sector, user-driven, open innovation, etc. • Assessing overall performance • Inputs vs outputs vs outcomes • International comparability • International, national, regional comparisons • Common definitions, data availability • Dynamics over time • Timely performance monitoring; • Understanding what drives change