2009 Regional Innovation Scoreboard published

The level of innovation in regions varies considerably across almost all EU countries. This is one of the main findings of the 2009 Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS), published  by the JRC's Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC), together with the Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry and the Maastricht University (MERIT).

The 2009 RIS, based on the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) approach and methodology, assesses innovation performances across 201 regions in the EU and Norway.

2009 RIS clusters the regions in five groups, ranging from the highest to the lowest overall innovators:

• In Austria, Belgium, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Luxembourg all regions display high and medium-high innovation performance (the latter two countries comprising only one region each).
• In Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway almost all regions are high and medium-high performers.
• Medium-low and low innovation regions dominate in Bulgaria, Greece, Poland and Romania (all regions), in Hungary, Portugal and Slovakia (all regions but one), in the Czech Republic and Spain (about 65% of the regions) and in Italy (about half of the regions). Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Malta – all comprising one region each due to their small size, are also members of this group.
• In an intermediate position are Estonia, Ireland, France and Slovenia.

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