European Innovation Scoreboard 2008

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF INNOVATION PERFORMANCE

This is the eighth edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS), which provides a comparative assessment of the innovation performance of EU Member States, under the EU Lisbon Strategy. The methodology for the 2008 EIS is revised compared to that of 2007 with a stronger focus on services, non-technological aspects, and outputs of innovation (Section 5.1). The analysis of trends over time is now based on changes in the absolute values of the indicators over a five year period, rather than the previous approach of measuring trends relative to the EU average.

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This report has been prepared by the Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT).

Acknowledgements
The report has benefited from the work on calculating composite indicator growth rates by the Joint Research Centre (Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen) of the European Commission, from the thematic paper on the Global Innovation Scoreboard by the Italian National Research Council (CNR), and by the work on scientific public-private co-publications by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS).

Disclaimer:
The views expressed in this report, as well as the information included in it, do not necessarily reflect the opinion or position of the European Commission and in no way commit the institution.