Evaluation of regional innovation performance

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Authors

ŽÍTEK Vladimír

Year of publication 2008
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference 5th International Conference Developments in Economic Theory and Policy
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Economics and Administration

Citation
Field Economy
Keywords Regional development; innovation index; evaluation; typology of regions
Description Innovations play the key role in the today's globalized world economy. This is a fact which also the European Union is aware of. Therefore, it is concerned with the innovation support. And individual national economies focus on the characteristics that influence their innovation potential. Several various methods are used for the evaluation of the innovation efficiency, for example the Summary Innovation Index (SII), using which the individual countries are assessed through 25 indicators. This contribution aims to find out which of the indicators involved in the method are available so that this method could be used for the evaluation of the innovation efficiency of the individual regions at the level of NUTS3. For this purpose the Regional Innovation Index (RII) has been defined and it uses 16 indicators, the same as or similar to the original methodology, to compare the regions of the Czech Republic. RII maintains the original weight ratio of innovation input and output dimensions. RII is used as a base for the creation of regional typology, which divides the regions into those considerably above average, those above average, the average ones, those below average and those considerably below average. Moreover, the results are compared with the conclusions of another study, which used a simpler methodology. This makes us able to draw final conclusions and also to define bases for further research.
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