Regional
Innovation
Scoreboard
2012
Enterprise
and Industry
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This report was prepared by:
Hugo Hollanders, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and technology (UNU-MERIT)Lorena Rivera Léon & Laura Roman, Technopolis Group.
With inputs from:
Cambridge Econometrics, Centre or Science and Technology Studies (CWTS - Leiden University), Joint Research Centre -Institute or the Protection and Security o the Citizen.
Coordinated by:
Directorate-General or Enterprise and IndustryDirectorate B – Sustainable Growth and EU 2020Unit B3 – Innovation Policy or Growth
Acknowledgements
The authors are grateul to the CIS Task Force members or their useul comments on previous drafs o the RIS report and the accompanying Methodology report. In particular we are grateul to all Member States which have made available regional data rom their Community Innovation Survey. Without these data, the construction o a Regional Innovation Scoreboard would not have been possible.
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This report is accompanied by the “Regional Innovation Scoreboard 2012 Methodology report”available on Europa: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/index_en.htm
The year 2012 in this edition o the Regional Innovation Scoreboard reers to the year in which the analytical work was completed.