Review and new evidence on composite innovation indicators for evaluating national performance

Grupp, Hariolf; Schubert, Torben

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2009.10.002

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“…It would be unwise to try and derive aggregate measures of performance when the units of measurement are not comparable, or when the measured activities are partly substitute or complementary with one another (Bonaccorsi and Daraio, 2008). Hence, there is a need for more flexibility also in the ways of aggregating performance indicators (Stirling, 2003;Grupp and Schubert., 2010). For example some authors are proposing the use of multidimensional measurements (van Vught and Ziegeleeds, 2012) and positioning indicators (Bonaccorsi and Daraio, 2008).…”

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Indicators of university–industry knowledge transfer performance and their implications for universities: evidence from the United Kingdom

Rossi

Rosli

2014

Studies in Higher Education

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Abstract:The issue of what indicators are most appropriate in order to measure the performance of universities in knowledge transfer (KT) activities remains relatively under-investigated. The main aim of this paper is to identify and discuss the limitations to the current measurements of university-industry KT performance, and propose some directions for improvement. We argue that university-industry KT can unfold in many ways and impact many stakeholders, and that, especially in highly differentiated university systems, choosing indicators focused on a narrow range of activities and impacts might limit the ability of universities to accurately represent their KT performance. Therefore, KT indicators should include a variety of activities and reflect a variety of impacts, so as to allow comparability between different institutions and avoid the creation of undesirable behavioural incentives. To illustrate these issues empirically, we discuss the case of the United Kingdom's Higher Education -Business and Community Interaction (HE-BCI) survey.

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Section: Conclusion: Going Beyond Current Indicatorsmentioning

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Indicators of university–industry knowledge transfer performance and their implications for universities: evidence from the United Kingdom

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2014

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“…Finally, the production of composite indicators 1 that aggregate a series of individual indicators into one or a few numbers, on the basis of an underlying model of the multidimensional concept that is being measured (for example, Grupp and Schubert 2010), especially when single indicators cannot capture the richness of a multidimensional concept, has greatly expanded in the past years. While GDP remains the hegemonic composite indicator, recent efforts have concentrated on developing alternative indicators of sustainability, progress and wellbeing as well as an increasing variety of league tables and rankings of countries, public services, and so on (for example, Pintér et al 2005).…”

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Indicators: tools for informing, monitoring or controlling?

Lehtonen¹

2015

The Tools of Policy Formulation

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“…However, it is uncertain to what extent indicators have actually delivered on this promise. Indicator producers are often frustrated at what they see as scarce, erroneous, selective, and opportunistic use of indicators by policy makers (e.g., Grupp and Schubert 2010). Yet, intended indicator users continue to call for the development of more and better indicators.…”

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Can Indicators Bridge the Gap between Science and Policy? An Exploration into the (Non)Use and (Non)Influence of Indicators in EU and UK Policy Making

Sébastien¹,

Bauler²,

Lehtonen³

2014

Nature and Culture

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Article (Accepted Version) http://sro.sussex.ac.uk Sébastien, Léa, Bauler, Tom and Lehtonen, Markku (2014) Can indicators fill the gap between science and policy? An exploration of the (non) use and (non) influence of indicators in EU and UK policymaking. Nature and Culture, 9 (3). pp. 316-343. ISSN 1558-6073 This version is available from Sussex Research Online: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/50679/ This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies and may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the URL above for details on accessing the published version. Copyright and reuse:Sussex Research Online is a digital repository of the research output of the University.Copyright and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable, the material made available in SRO has been checked for eligibility before being made available.Copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. Can Indicators Bridge the Gap between Science and Policy? An Exploration into the (Non)Use and (Non)Influence of Indicators in EU and UK Policy-MakingLéa Sébastien, Tom Bauler, and Markku Lehtonen AbstractThis article examines the various roles that indicators, as boundary objects, can play as a science-based evidence for policy processes. It presents two case studies from the EU-funded POINT project that examined the use and influence of two highly different types of indicators: composite indicators of sustainable development at the EU level and energy indicators in the UK. In both cases indicators failed as direct input to policy making, yet they generated various types of conceptual and political use and influence. The composite sustainable development indicators served as "framework indicators", helping to advocate a specific vision of sustainable development, whereas the energy indicators produced various types of indirect influence, including through the process of indicator elaboration. Our case studies demonstrate the relatively limited importance of the characteristics and quality of indicators in determining the role of indicators, as compared with the crucial importance of "user factors" (characteristics of policy actors) and "policy factors" (policy context).

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Review and new evidence on composite innovation indicators for evaluating national performance

Cited by 188 publications

References 29 publications

Indicators of university–industry knowledge transfer performance and their implications for universities: evidence from the United Kingdom

Indicators of university–industry knowledge transfer performance and their implications for universities: evidence from the United Kingdom

Indicators: tools for informing, monitoring or controlling?

Can Indicators Bridge the Gap between Science and Policy? An Exploration into the (Non)Use and (Non)Influence of Indicators in EU and UK Policy Making

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