Measuring National Innovation Performance The Innovation Union Score
This book provides a critical re-examination of the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) as the main tool used by the European Commission and other policy-making bodies to measure national innovation capacity. Given that contemporary societies and econo
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Frane Adam
Measuring National Innovation Performance The Innovation Union Scoreboard Revisited
SpringerBriefs in Economics
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Frane Adam
Measuring National Innovation Performance The Innovation Union Scoreboard Revisited
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Frane Adam Institute for Developmental and Strategic Analyses (IRSA) Ljubljana Slovenia
ISSN 2191-5504 ISSN 2191-5512 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-642-39463-8 ISBN 978-3-642-39464-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-39464-5 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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Contents
1 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 Methodological and Epistemic Framework: From Positivism to Post-positivism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3 Innovation: Measurement and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4 Innovation Union Scoreboard: Central Monitoring System for the EU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4.1 Main Characteristics and Indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4.2 Short Overview of Existing Criticism . . . . . .
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