Measuring Cross-Border Regional Integration with Composite Indicators: The Oresund Integration Index

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Author(s): Teemu Makkonen (University of Surrey, UK & University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 19
Source title: Emerging Trends in the Development and Application of Composite Indicators
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Veljko Jeremic (University of Belgrade, Serbia), Zoran Radojicic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)and Marina Dobrota (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0714-7.ch001

Keywords: Data Analysis & Statistics / Data Analysis and Statistics / Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science

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Earlier quantitative studies on cross-border regional integration processes have commonly neglected Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) indicators: even the most notable example of a composite indicator approach to measuring cross-border regional integration, i.e. the Oresund index, lacks a sub-category for STI. Consequently, by ignoring cross-border innovation and knowledge flows, the Oresund integration index fails to take into account one of the most important drivers of economic growth in cross-border regions. Therefore, a new composite STI indicator (sub-category) was introduced to strengthen the Oresund integration index. This was compiled from patent, publication and collaborative R&D project data. The findings show that this index performs reasonably well in depicting STI integration, while at the same time remaining simple and straightforward enough to be adopted in other cross-border regions.

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