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100 1 _aAdam, Frane.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aMeasuring National Innovation Performance
_h[electronic resource] :
_bThe Innovation Union Scoreboard Revisited /
_cby Frane Adam.
264 1 _aBerlin, Heidelberg :
_bSpringer Berlin Heidelberg :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2014.
300 _aVIII, 74 p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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490 1 _aSpringerBriefs in Economics,
_x2191-5504
505 0 _a1 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.  .
520 _aThis 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.                                                  .
650 0 _aManagement.
650 0 _aIndustrial management.
650 0 _aEconomic policy.
650 0 _aRegional economics.
650 0 _aSpatial economics.
650 0 _aEconomic sociology.
650 1 4 _aEconomics.
650 2 4 _aR & D/Technology Policy.
650 2 4 _aRegional/Spatial Science.
650 2 4 _aInnovation/Technology Management.
650 2 4 _aOrganizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
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