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1. Introduction
In 2002 and 2003 under the European Commission’s “European Trend Chart on Innovation” (EnterpriseDirectorate-General) two Regional Innovation Scoreboards have been published
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. Both reports focusedon the regional innovation performance of the EU15 member states using a more limited number of indicators as compared to the
European Innovation Scoreboard
. This report provides an update of bothreports by using more recent data and provides an extension by also including the regions of the newmember states. As compared to the 2003 RIS, the number of regions increases from 173 to 208 but thenumber of indicators decreases from 13 to 7. Regional CIS-2 data have not been used as these data arenot available for half of the countries and are also becoming too old.
Table 1. A comparison of the 2002 and 2003 RIS and the 2006 RIS
2002 RIS 2003 RIS 2006 RIS Source (Eurostat)
Countries EU15EU15EU25Number of regions 148173208Number of indicators 7137Population with tertiary education (% of 25 – 64years age class)Yes: 2001 dataor most recentYes: 2002 dataor most recentNoLabour ForceSurveyHuman Resources in Science and Technology –Core (% of population)No No Yes: 2004 dataLabour ForceSurveyParticipation in life-long learning (% of 25 – 64years age class)Yes: 2001 dataor most recentYes: 2002 dataor most recentYes: 2004 dataLabour ForceSurveyEmployment in medium-high and high-tech
manufacturing (% of total workforce)Yes: 2000 dataor most recentYes: 2002 dataor most recentYes: 2004 dataLabour ForceSurveyEmployment in high-tech services (% of totalworkforce)Yes: 2000 dataor most recentYes: 2002 dataor most recentYes: 2004 dataLabour ForceSurveyPublic R&D expenditures (GERD – BERD) (% of GDP)Yes: 1999 dataor most recentYes: 2001 dataor most recentYes: 2002 dataor most recentR&D statisticsBusiness expenditures on R&D (BERD) (% of GDP)Yes: 1999 dataor most recentYes: 2001 dataor most recentYes: 2002 dataor most recentR&D statisticsEPO high-tech patent applications (per millionpopulation)Yes: 1999 dataor most recentYes: 2001 dataor most recentNo Patent statisticsEPO patent applications (per million population) NoYes: 2001 dataor most recentYes: 2002 data Patent statisticsShare of innovative enterprises (% of allmanufacturing enterprises)NoYes: 1996 dataNo2
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CommunityInnovation SurveyShare of innovative enterprises (% of all servicesenterprises)NoYes: 1996 dataNo2
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CommunityInnovation SurveyInnovation expenditures (% of all turnover inmanufacturing)NoYes: 1996 dataNo2
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CommunityInnovation SurveyInnovation expenditures (% of all turnover inservices)NoYes: 1996 dataNo2
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CommunityInnovation SurveySales of ‘new to the firm but not new to themarket’ products (% of all turnover inmanufacturing)NoYes: 1996 dataNo2
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CommunityInnovation Survey
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The 2002 report is available fromhttp://trendchart.cordis.lu/scoreboards/Scoreboard2002/download_area.cfm The 2003 report is available fromhttp://trendchart.cordis.lu/scoreboards/scoreboard2003/scoreboard_papers.cfm
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