METHODOLOGICAL DEBATE ON THE ‘REGIONAL INNOVATION SCOREBOARD’.
METHODOLOGICAL DEBATE ON THE ‘REGIONAL INNOVATION SCOREBOARD’.
Intro- duction
Innovation is one of the main drivers of economic growth and social welfare (Solow, 1956, 1957). Innovation policy is key in shaping innovation systems and their per- formance (Nelson and Romer, 1996; Barbosa and Faria, 2011; Taylor, 2016; Edler and Fagerberg, 2017). Innovation systems are made up of a complex network of interact- ing organisations, institutions and pol- icies whose main goal is to improve the conditions necessary for innovations to emerge and develop, and then be disseminat- ed and adopted (Metcalfe, 1995; Palmberg, 2006), all with a view to improving the competitiveness of the territories and the well-being of their citizens.
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Characterising innovation systems has always been a challenge for policy-makers and re- searchers alike (Janger et al. , 2017), given the difficulty in determining the number and type of indicators to use, as well as the absence of a theory on innovation systems and policies (Grupp and Schubert, 2010; Edquist and Laat- sit, 2022). While the number of indicators to measure innovation has increased over recent decades, the problem of characterising inno- vation and innovation systems still persists (Dziallas and Blind, 2019).
The European Commission has been one of
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