This 6th edition of the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS) provides a comparative assessment of innovation performance across 190 regions of the European Union, Norway and Switzerland. The RIS accompanies the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) which benchmarks innovation performance at the level of Member States.
Where the IUS provides an annual benchmark of Member States’ innovation performance, regional innovation benchmarks are less frequent and less detailed due to a general lack of innovation data at the regional level. The Regional Innovation Scoreboard addresses this gap and provides statistical facts on regions’ innovation performance. Previous RIS reports have been published in 2002, 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2012. The RIS 2014 provides both an update of the RIS 2012 but also introduces some changes in the measurement methodology.