A Proposal of Indicators and Policy Framework for Innovation Benchmark in Europe

Abstract

The implementation of innovation policies has been adopted at European level from a common perspective. The European Council (2000) established open methods of coordination (OMC) in order to gain mutual understanding and achieving greater convergence on innovation policies, constituting a benchmarking procedure.<br />However, the development of benchmarking analysis for innovation policies faces two major inconveniences: the lack of accepted innovation policy frameworks and the existence of suitable indicators to measure their performance. <br />This article has a twofold objective: on the one hand, conducting an analysis of the existing innovation policy frameworks, putting forward a set of innovation policies which could be used as reference for policy analysis and on the other hand, proposing a set of indicators for measuring their performance

Harvesting reflective knowledge exchange for inbound open innovation in complex collaborative networks: an empirical verification in Europe

“…Specifically, it is the percentage of enterprises in each country that provides ICT training during the reference period (considering all the enterprises with ten persons employed or more, without financial sector). ICT skills together with the internet itself allow organizations access to knowledge, boosting the potential of their research activities and improving their efficiency for innovativeness (García Manjón, 2010; Wood, 2004).…”

Evolution of inbound openness profiles in the innovation practices of small and medium-sized enterprises in Spain and Portugal

“…Innovation policies in the EU are implemented at different levels: regional plans coexist with national and European strategies, constituting a multilevel approach to the promotion of innovation in Europe (Balaz et al, 2005;García Manjón, 2010). Efforts have been made to coordinate these policies (European Council, 2000;Hollanders et al, 2016) whilst taking the overall technological position of each country into account (Izsak et al, 2015).…”

“…To set out a coherent whole of policy recommendations on open innovation, it is important that actions are coordinated at the EU level while simultaneously considering the specificities of the status of open innovation in the various member states. In order to do so it is critical to not only develop monitoring systems to measure the development and progress of open innovation in these states, but also to ensure that the data used for monitoring comes from official sources like the Eurostat Community Innovation Survey (CIS) to facilitate comparison (García Manjón, 2010). In this respect, open innovation has for some time been recognised as having many facets and typologies, rather than as being an open versus closed dichotomy (e.g., Verbano et al, 2015).…”

“…Given that open innovation and knowledge transfer are key elements in the policy agenda of the European Commission (European Commission, 2013 and that there is a need to not only develop monitoring systems on how well organisations and institutions are performing in these aspects at the Member States level, but also to assess the progress of said performance over time (Debackere et al, 2014), the results constitute a step towards showing that significant differences exist across countries, even when they have similar overall innovativeness levels (Balaz et al, 2005;Debackere et al, 2014;García Manjón, 2010). This is even more relevant as we show these differences evolve over time.…”

Os indicadores do saneamento medem a universalização em áreas de vulnerabilidade social?

“…Apesar de diversos estudos acerca da avaliação de desempenho e benchmarking do setor de saneamento na Europa, destacando como se utilizam os indicadores para melhorar performance dos serviços públicos essenciais de caráter coletivo (ADMIRAAL & VAN HELDEN, 2003;BERG & MARQUES, 2011;CRISTIA, 2006;ESCODA, 2005;GARCIA MANJON, 2010;PIRES, 2010PIRES, , 2011, sobretudo estudos ligados à provisão de saneamento para populações mais pobres (BLOKLAND, 2010;NDLOVU, 2011), e indicadores de saneamento e saúde no Brasil (ANDREAZZI;BARCELLOS;HACON, 2007;CALIJURI et al, 2009), entre outros, são raros os estudos no Brasil focados em benchmarking e indicadores para os serviços de universalização do saneamento.…”