Regional gazelles and lions as creative creatures: a meta-multicriteria analysis of innovation and growth potentials of European regions

Peter Nijkamp, F. Zwetsloot and S. van der Wal

No 18, Serie Research Memoranda from VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics

Abstract: Creative regions are nowadays seen as strategic areas for a fierce – and often global – competition. This paper aims to provide an operational assessment framework for judging the innovation potential of competing regions on the basis of indicators that mirror the indigenous regional creative resources. Various evaluation methods are proposed to assess this innovation potential, on the basis of a set of 9 regions in Europe. The robustness of the findings is tested by applying a meta-multicriteria analysis.

Date: 2008
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