Ideas for Inter-regional comparison

IMPACTSCAN provides the possibility to compare regional innovation support systems between regions. During the project, bilateral discussions between regions, involving the use of the matrixes and the context setting part, were experienced as the most efficient way to carry out inter-regional comparisons. Identifying the largest differences in context setting, M1,M2 and M3, was a general starting point to start such comparisons.

A list of possible questions to be addressed, as well as examples of practical outcomes achieved in the pilot regions, are listed in this section. The questions relate both to specific features of the IMPACTSCAN tool, but also to more detailed aspects of the regional context which go beyond the content of the tool. Indeed getting more detailed knowledge about these regional features are necessary to interpret the IMPACTSCAN results with due care.

Tip: an outcome from bilateral discussions between Slovenia and Madrid

There is a logical sequence to look at graphs :
1st step : in M1 identify strong policy objective and identify which intermediary is working on this policy objective.
2nd step : look at M2 to identify the service that intermediaries are developing and search for difference between regions
3rd step : look at impact of different services to identify good practice

Questions on policy context and M1

Questions on Intermediaries and Services

Further work following the use of IMPACTSCAN