Innovation Union Scoreboard evaluates Member States' investment in research and innovation

The European Commission has recently published the Innovation Union Scoreboard 2010, which draws on 25 research and innovation-related indicators and covers the 27 EU Member States, as well as Croatia, Serbia, Turkey, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.

The Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS), based on the previous European Innovation Scoreboard, is meant to help monitor the implementation of the Europe 2020 Innovation Union flagship by providing a comparative assessment of the innovation performance of the EU27 Member States and the relative strengths and weaknesses of their research and innovation systems.

The indicators are grouped into three main categories:

  • "Enablers", i.e. the basic building blocks which allow innovation to take place (human resources, finance and support, open, excellent and attractive research systems)
  • "Firm activities" which show how innovative Europe's firms are (firm investments, linkages & entrepreneurship, intellectual assets); and
  • "Outputs" which show how this translates into benefits for the economy as a whole (innovators, economic effects).

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