The IAIF index for European Regional Innovations Systems

Laburpena

This paper presents the �IAIF� scoreboard for European regional innovation systems. The heterogeneity of such systems requires the simultaneous use of a broad number of variables. The use of the Factor Analysis Technique allows us to work with a broad number of variables whose information will be reduced and converted to a few non-observable hypothetical variables called factors. Those factors reflect different specific aspects of the innovation system and are used �as sub indexes- to elaborate the overall IAIF index for European regional innovation systems. This index measures the innovative level of the regions and permits us not only to compare the technological capabilities of the different European regions but also permits the analysis of this capacity over time. We calculated this scoreboard for the regions of the former EU15 countries