Motivation: There is plenty of evidence suggesting that the (regional) innovation systems in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are in their early beginnings and that this poses huge challenges to the implementation of the smart specialization agendas and to the efficient use of the European structural and investment funds in these countries. Our assumption is that structural differences explain to a large extent the differences in innovation performance between the CEE and non-CEE regions and that the future growth trajectories of the CEE regions should more specifically embrace the broad-based innovation concept.Aim: Our study attempts to test whether there are statistically significant differences between the CEE and non-CEE regions in each component of the European Regional Innovation Scoreboard and whether such differences can be explained by the variations in structural conditions. To this purpose, we use a discriminant factor analysis and test the correlations between the discriminant function and various structural indicators.
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