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  Regional Innovation Scoreboard 2012 Enterprise and Industry   More inormation on the European Union is available on the Internet (http://europa.eu)Cataloguing data can be ound at the end o this publication.ISBN 978-92-79-26308-8doi: 10.2769/55659Cover picture: iStockphoto_16961307 © Tibor Nagy© European Union, 2012Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged. Printed in Belgium PRINTED ON CHLORE FREE PAPER Legal notice: The views expressed in this report, as well as the inormation included in it, do not necessarily reflect the opinion or position o the European Commission and in no way commit the institution. 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 grateul to the CIS Task Force members or their useul comments on previous drafs o the RIS report and the accompanying Methodology report. In particular we are grateul 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. Europe Direct is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European Union Freephone number (*):00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11 (*) Certain mobile telephone operators do not allow access to 00 800 numbers or these calls may be billed.  Regional  Innovation  Scoreboard 2012 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 reers to the year in which the analytical work was completed.