Glossary:Innovation union scoreboard (IUS)
The Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) provides a comparative assessment of the research and innovation performance of EU Member States as well as the relative strengths and weaknesses of their research and innovation systems. As such, the IUS helps Member States assess areas in which they need to concentrate their efforts in order to boost their innovation performance.
Besides EU Members, the IUS includes information on Serbia, North Macedonia, Turkey, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. On a more limited number of indicators available internationally, it also covers Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan, Russia, South Africa, South Korea and the US.
The Innovation Union Scoreboard captures a total of 25 different indicators (see figure below), distinguishing between eight innovation dimensions and three main categories of indicators, namely:
- Enablers, the basic building blocks which allow innovation to take place (i.e. human resources, open, excellent and attractive research systems, and finance and support);
- Firm activities, which capture innovation efforts in European firms (i.e. firm investments, linkages and entrepreneurship, and intellectual assets);
- Outputs, which show how this translates into benefits for the economy as a whole (i.e. innovators and economic effects).
