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EUROPEAN INNOVATION SCOREBOARD 2006
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF INNOVATION PERFORMANCE
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.
This report has been prepared by the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on
Innovation and Technology (MERIT) and the Joint Research Centre (Institute for the
Protection and Security of the Citizen) of the European Commission.
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2006 EUROPEAN INNOVATION SCOREBOARD
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Introduction............................................................................................................3
1.1.
Executive summary........................................................................................3
1.2.
Revised indicators and methodology.............................................................6
2. European Innovation Scoreboard: Base Findings..................................................8
2.1.
Overall innovation performance in Europe....................................................8
2.2.
Five key dimensions of innovation performance.........................................10
2.3.
Innovation performance by country.............................................................13
2.4.
Innovation input and innovation output.......................................................14
2.5.
The EU innovation gap with the US and Japan ...........................................16
3. Thematics.............................................................................................................19
3.1.
New indicators (Methodology report) .........................................................19
3.2.
International comparison – Global Innovation Scoreboard .........................22
3.3.
IPR and innovation ......................................................................................26
3.4.
Innovation at the regional level –