Measuring Regional Innovativeness - A Methodological Discussion and an Application to One German Industry

Tom Broekel () and Thomas Brenner ()

No 2007-065, Jena Economic Research Papers in Economics from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics, Thueringer Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek

Abstract: The regional or national innovation performance has been repeatedly measured in the literature; but it has so far not been discussed what this means, especially in relation to a region. What is the contribution of a region to innovation output? The usual approaches implicitly assume that higher innovation outputs per inhabitant, employee, or R+D employee can be assigned to a region. We argue that more insights are gained if we distinguish between various mechanisms that influence the innovation activities in a region. Different analyses need to be conducted, using different variables and including different local factors. Furthermore, we see no justification for using a linear dependence of innovation activity on the number of inhabitants or employees as a benchmark for performance. We use a method that takes into account these arguments and apply it to the Electrics + Electronics industry in Germany.

Keywords: Regional innovation performance; regional innovativeness; non-parametric performance analysis; measurement of regional innovativeness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R11 R15 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007-09-17
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