European Innovation Scoreboard

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European Commission
Enterprise and Industry DG
European Innovation Scoreboard
EPG DGs meeting, May 2008
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Measuring innovation performance

• The European Innovation Scoreboard provides a
  comparative assessment of innovation performance
  for
• 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

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Benchmarking overall innovation performance
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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

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Benchmarking EU vs US
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Monitoring progress trends 2003-07
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New perspectives innovation efficiency
Innovation efficiency
Maximising
Inputs (innovation drivers knowledge creation
Innovation entrepreneurship)
Outputs (Applications Intellectual
Property)
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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