| Summary: | In this dissertation we follow the methodological approach of measuring the European
regions’ innovative performance in two stages. The present framework calculates
the innovative behaviour of the European regions using the methodology of
data envelopment analysis (DEA) in order to track down regions’ efficiencies. For
this purpose, 232 European regions are being tested in a fourteen year time-span,
from 2002 to 2015. Empirical results show that regions from France, Germany,
United Kingdom and Spain take the best spots. In addition, the average efficiency
of the innovative behaviour of the European regions shows improvement through
the passage of time.
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