It is nearly a year since the last annual report on innovation across Europe as reflected in the annual Innovation Union Scoreboard, so a fresh one should be reaching us some time next month. The scoreboard measures the application of innovation by Member States using a basket of 24 performance indicators to decide whether you are first in class, running but keeping up, or failing to deliver in the innovation sweeps. The last scoreboard had us firmly with the “innovation followers” camp, one of four categories defined by the process along with innovation leaders, moderate innovators and the modest innovators.
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