METHODOLOGICAL DEBATE ON THE ‘REGIONAL INNOVATION SCOREBOARD’.
METHODOLOGICAL DEBATE ON THE ‘REGIONAL INNOVATION SCOREBOARD’.
Efficiency characterisation through the relationship between inputs and outputs 5.2
FIGURE 9 Outputs vs. inputs. Innovation efficiency through the RIS
Efficiency of European regions, measured based on input and output synthetic indicators dis - tance. The line shows the European average for each efficiency level. Source: Drafted in-house based on European Union (2021b)
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We will start our study of European regions with a descriptive analysis, before moving on to analyse their efficiency in detail using the Data Envelopment Analysis technique (see section 5.3) 8 . Figure 9 shows a descriptive analysis of the input and output sub-indices. Although the chart only shows the Spanish regions, we have ordered all European regions based on differ- ences between the sub-indices as an efficiency measurement, with the least efficient on the left (i.e. regions with a lower output/input ratio) and on the most efficient on the right (higher output/input ratio). The curves in the graph show the European average for each efficiency level. According to this simple analysis, the Span- ish regions with relatively lower efficiency are Navarre, the Basque Country and Castile, while the most efficient are Catalonia, Murcia, La Rioja, the Balearic Islands and Valencia Region. (FIGURE 9) The comparison between the Basque Coun- try and Valencia Region, at opposite ends of Figure 9, is particularly interesting. Although the Basque Country ranks first in Spain in the 2021 RIS, Figure 9 shows that its relative position is penalised in terms of efficiency. This is because the Basque Country is the Spanish region that invests most inputs in its regional innovation system (blue point in Figure 9). As
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8 A description of this method is included in Annex III.
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