Improving the Regional Innovation Scoreboard for policy : how about innovation efficiency? Ghent University
This paper aims to improve the Regional Innovation Scoreboard as an instrument for policy-making. Dynamic slack-based models of data envelopment analysis to measure innovation output efficiency in 207 European regions demonstrate that the scale-based performance classification of the Scoreboard into 'leader', 'strong', 'moderate', and 'modest' innovator regions inadequately reflects differences in efficiency in transforming knowledge inputs into ...