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Índice de Innovación de la Unión Europea (2015)

Index of Innovation in the European Union (2015)

The European innovation scoreboard offers a comparative evaluation based on eight innovation dimensions: the so-called “enablers” (human resources research systems and finance and support); the “firm activities” (firm investments linkages and entrepreneurship and intellectual assets); and the “outputs” (innovators and economic effects).

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