Abstract The European Union (EU) annually publishes an Innovation Union Scoreboard
(IUS) as a tool to measure the innovation performance of EU Member States by means of a …

The theoretical and practical development of the innovation concept is relevant in academic
and economic arenas, and the regional systemic perspective of innovation is gaining ground …

Innovation and environmental sustainability are key elements in countries' development and
essential to ensure their continuing competitiveness in an increasingly globalised market …

The aim of this book is to consider theoretically the notion of the global competitiveness of
regions, as well as giving attention as to how such competitiveness may be empirically …

H uggins R. Regional competitive intelligence: benchmarking and policy-making, Regional
Studies. Benchmarking exercises have become increasingly popular within the sphere of …

The aim of the work was to evaluate the dynamics of regional innovation development and
compare the Russian regions according to their innovation efficiency, used resources, and …

We contribute to the literature on the assessment of innovation systems by relating the
amount of inputs available to the system and its performance through the concept of returns …

For the last decades, Science and Technology Parks (STPs) have been emerging to help in
the development of regions; as a consequence, there has been an improvement in RIS …

This study attempts to use multicriteria decision aiding (MCDA) tools to analyse the
innovation capacity of 32 regions in Mexico. In today's competitive world, innovation in …

Innovative economies generate new options from geographical, technological, and
organizational synergies. These synergies can be indicated as subsystems of negative …