METHODOLOGICAL DEBATE ON THE ‘REGIONAL INNOVATION SCOREBOARD’.
TA- BLE OF CON- TENTS
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Executive summary
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01. Introduction
02. Some methodological discussions about synthetic indices
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03. The Spanish context in accordance with the EIS
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04. Robustness of the ranking of regions in accordance with the RIS
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4.1. Stability the ranking of regions of the RIS
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4.2. The significance of RIS differences between regions according to the relative weights of the variables in the RIS
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4.3. Towards a robust regional innovation
ranking system in Europe
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05. Inputs, outputs and efficiency in the RIS
5.1. Indicators that characterise innovation
system inputs and outputs
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5.2. Efficiency characterisation through the relationship between inputs and outputs
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5.3. Efficiency characterisation through
Data Envelopment Analysis
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06. “Bottlenecks” in the RIS
6.1. Ranking in accordance with the bottleneck penalisation 66 6.2. Ranking in accordance with the penalisation in business R&D expenditure and the degree of openness of the SMEs 68
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07. Conclusions
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Bibliography
Annex I. Methodology to obtain random weights Annex II. Rankings for all European regions according to the perspectives developed
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Annex III. Methodology to obtain the efficiency measurement of a system 96
Annex IV. Summary sheets by Spanish region
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