Measuring National Innovation Performance - The Innovation Union Scoreboard Revisited (Paperback, 2014 ed.)

This book provides a critical re-examination of the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) as the main tool used by the European Commission and other policy-making bodies to measure national innovation capacity. Given that contemporary societies and economies are to a great extent characterised by the processes of production, dissemination and application (re-combination) of knowledge, the accurate monitoring and measurement of R&D efficiency and innovation performance on national, regional and firm level are of outmost importance. The contextual reconstruction of the model of indicators used by IUS reveals that the accuracy and validity of measurement are not satisfactory, and that substantial modifications of metrics are needed to achieve stronger theoretical significance and policy-relevance. In this work, the epistemic turn is emphasised and offered as an alternative, namely in the sense of the shift from a mechanicist-positivist orientation toward a more reflective and contextual post-positivist approach. "

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	SpringerBriefs in Economics
Release date:	October 2013
First published:	2014
Authors:	Frane Adam
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 4mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	74
Edition:	2014 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-39463-8
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management of specific areas > Research & development management
LSN:	3-642-39463-9
Barcode:	9783642394638

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