06/2011
The Global Innovation Index benefiting from JRC recommendations
‘The Global Innovation Index 2011 (GII) – Accelerating Growth
and Development’ was released today (June 30, 2011) by INSEAD, one of the
world's leading and largest graduate business schools. It aims at enabling
countries to benchmark their policies through an integrated metric that was
carefully designed in order not to penalize smaller or lower-income
economies. This year the GII model includes 125 countries that represent
93.2% of the world’s population and 98.0% of the world’s GDP. All EU
countries except Malta are represented in the ranking.
06/2011
Measuring the rule of law: the World Justice Project ranks 66 countries
The World Justice Project (WJP), a global non-profit
organisation promoting the rule of law, presented its new report on the
adherence to the rule of law of 66 countries, at the World Justice Forum
held on 20-23 June in Barcelona, Spain. The scores in the document, titled
2011 WJP Rule of Law Index™, are based on a methodology which statistical
reliability was audited by the JRC’s Institute for the Protection and the
Security of the Citizen (IPSC). JRC researchers also acted as academic
advisers to the report.
05/2011
How the World Sees Us
Statistical indicators and league tables portray Italy as
a country with many problems. Are these measures correct? Is our country
really so uncompetitive and non-innovative? Are our universities really so
bad? Do our kids really do so poorly in math? We plot all that can be
plotted about Italy and its regions and discuss what Italians should
understand and possibly do. [Presentation given during the
2011 JRC Open Day
on May 14 at the Ispra Site]
03/2011
Consumer Empowerment in Europe
Consumers who feel to be knowledgeable are
also those who show higher basic skills and better capacity to read logos
and labels. Consumers who feel confident seem not to read completely and
carefully terms and conditions when signing contracts, while they seem to be
more interested in information on their rights as compared to non empowered
consumers.
These are some of the findings of the Consumer Empowerment
Index, the first European measure of consumer empowerment based on a special
Euro barometer survey of more than 56000 European Consumers in 29 countries.
Consumer empowerment is captured along three main dimensions: Consumer
skills, Awareness of consumer legislation and Consumer
engagement.
02/2011
Measuring European Innovation
The
JRC-IPSC provided statistical support to the 1st edition of the Innovation
Union Scoreboard, published on February 1, 2011 by the European Commission.
Building on one
decade of experience with the European Innovation Scoreboard, the new
Innovation Union Scoreboard has been adapted to help monitoring the
implementation of the Europe 2020 Innovation Union flagship.
Methodology report
(pdf)
Results & Country profiles
(pdf)
01/2011
Regional competitiveness and exogenous socio-economic indicators
The European Commission has recently published the
first edition of the
Regional Competitiveness Index (RCI). The index provides a tool to improve
the understanding of competitiveness at the regional level by showing the
strengths and weaknesses of each of the European regions at the NUTS2 level
in a number of dimensions related to competitiveness. The "in-depth
analysis" document takes a step further and offers a two-fold insight: a
spatial autocorrelation analysis and a study of the relationships between
regional competitiveness and exogenous socio-economic indicators.
Short note
(word)
Full
report
(pdf)
In-depth analysis
(pdf)
Results (excel)
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