THE RIS UNDER SCRUTINY

METHODOLOGICAL DEBATE ON THE ‘REGIONAL INNOVATION SCOREBOARD’.

METHODOLOGICAL DEBATE ON THE ‘REGIONAL INNOVATION SCOREBOARD’.

˜ FIGURE 5 Innovation performance of European regions and regions categories

˜ TABLE 3 Characterisation of Spanish Regions

Azores (PT)

in the RIS 2021 Source: European Union (2021b: 26)

Score relative to EU27 average in 2021 (=100) Source: European Union (2021b: 5)

0 100

Canarias (ES)

VARIATION (%) 2014-2021

RANKING (OUT OF 240)

CLASSIFICATION

SPANISH REGIONS

RIS

LEADERS (+)

Andalusia Aragon Asturias

67.5 80.9 73.7 67.4 48.8 73.5 64.4 76.9 98.9 33.6 61.1 78.9 80.7 101

177 148 166 178 216 168 183 160 108 231 188 156 150 100 226 161 114 93 128

Emerging + Moderate Moderate — Emerging + Emerging Moderate — Emerging + Moderate — Moderate + Emerging — Emerging + Moderate —

10.6 9.1 8.9 9.9 10.7 9.5 12.3 17.4 16.9 4.2 14.1 16 7.9 13.7 12.5 17.5 17.5 14.7 18.3

0 100

LEADERS

Guadalupe (FR)

STRONG (+) LEADERS (–)

Balearic Islands Canary Islands Cantabria Castile-La Mancha Castile-Leon Catalonia Ceuta Extremadura ‎ ‏ Galicia La Rioja Madrid Region Melilla Murcia Region Navarre Basque Country Valencia Region

0 25

STRONG

Guayana (FR)

STRONG (–)

MODERATE (+)

MODERATE

0 100

Madeira (PT)

EMERGING (+) MODERATE (–)

EMERGING

20

0

EMERGING (–)

Malta

Moderate Strong — Emerging

0 10

40.6 76.3 98.1 103.6 91.3

Martinica (FR)

Moderate — Moderate + Strong — Moderate +

0 20

Reunión (FR)

0 20

Table 3 shows: ( I) RIS: the performance level of each region, measured using the RIS syn- thetic index compared to the EU average for 2021 (column 3); ( II) Ranking: position of each Spanish region in the 2021 European regions ranking; (III ) Classification: subgroup that each

Spanish region belongs to; and (IV) Varia- tion: change in the performance level of each Spanish region measured through the growth observed in its RIS synthetic index between 2014 and 2021. (TABLE 3)

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