In Galway, Ireland, I participated an excellent innovation seminar by director Dr. Willie (William) Golden. Discussions with him made me think about innovation measurements in the global and European scale.
There is an index called the European Innovation Scoreboard.
This scoreboard is actually an evaluation paper prepared for the European Commission.
The following input- and output indicators are listed in the EIS Scoreboard (Please, click the image to enlarge it):
Decision makers will most likely consider this EIS paper as de facto in their work. Our economies and our work will be mostly measured by those indicators, at least in Europe.
This index is not complete. The missing elements are partly noted in following papers. Especially I liked the additions of Anthony Arundel and Hugo Hollanders from Merit (Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology).
What would still I add?
- The measurements of Open source activity in economies (see the writings of Rishab Aiyer Ghosh in First Monday).
- Innovation in Services and their measuring (Please, check the Service Blueprinting )
- Business model innovation (Please, check the Open Business Models by Henry Chesbrough)
One citation from the report: "Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, Japan and Germany are the innovation leaders, with SII scores well above that of the EU25 and the other countries.".
Hmm, if service innovation and business model innovation could be measured in the EIS index, would these countries be innovation leaders any more?
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