TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adam,Frane
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Measuring National Innovation Performance: The Innovation Union Scoreboard Revisited 
T2  - SpringerBriefs in Economics,
SN  - 9783642394645
AV  - JF20-2112 
U1  - 338.926 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Management
KW  - Industrial management
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - Regional economics
KW  - Spatial economics
KW  - Economic sociology
KW  - Economics
KW  - R & D/Technology Policy
KW  - Regional/Spatial Science
KW  - Innovation/Technology Management
KW  - Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodological and Epistemic Framework: From Positivism to Post-positivism -- 3 Innovation: Measurement and Indicators -- 4 Innovation Union Scoreboard: Central Monitoring System for the EU -- 5 Country Profiles and Patterns Regarding Innovation Performance -- 6 Some Comparisons with Other Scoreboards -- 7 On Policy Implications -- 8 Concluding Remarks.  
N2  - 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.                                                  
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