Western Balkans

*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.

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Regional Innovation Scoreboard 2023 (including Serbian regions)

This 11th edition of the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS) offers a comparative assessment of the research and innovation performance of 239 regions in 22 EU Member States, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. In addition, Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Luxembourg and Malta are included at the country level, as in these countries NUTS 1 and NUTS 2 level regions are identical to the country territory.

The RIS accompanies the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS), which assesses the performance of national innovation systems. It provides a regional innovation benchmark - the Regional Innovation Index (RII). This is a composite indicator, which builds on the same methodological framework as the EIS, although it summarises the performance on fewer indicators due to lower data availability at regional level (21 indicators compared to 32 in the EIS).

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