This is the first edition of the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS). Based on the previous European Innovation Scoreboard, the new tool is meant to help monitor the implementation of the Europe 2020 Innovation Union1 flagship by providing a comparative assessment of the innovation performance of the EU27 Member States and the relative strengths and weaknesses of their research and innovation systems.
The former list of 29 indicators in the IUS 2009 has been replaced with a new list of 25 indicators2, which better capture the performance of national research and innovation systems considered as a whole. 19 of the previous 29 indicators have been carried over from last year’s edition, of which 12 indicators have not been changed, 2 indicators have been merged, and 5 indicators have been partly changed by using broader or narrower definitions or different denominators. Taking into account the merging of 2 indicators, 18 indicators of the IUS 2010 are equivalent to those of the EIS 2009 and in addition 7 new indicators have been introduced. Annex E includes a comparative table with the two sets of indicators.
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