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The Global Innovation Index – Quantifying National Innovation: Pillars, Rankings, and Remarks

The GII report and ‘Index’ reports in general

Let me start by saying that one should be very careful when dealing with broad inter-country indicators and not just because they could (they will) contain mistakes (some have had very juicy scandals that involve cooking data and massaging numbers).. I think that many of these ‘reduce-everything-into-a-number’ measures, especially when they try to measure wide social processes carry inherent ‘conflation risks’ leading to waste of mass-scale resources.

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The Cultural Innovation Sub-system

The Cultural Innovation Sub-system

Improving the effectiveness of National Innovation System (NIS) initiatives in developing nations

The Cultural and Creative Industries can be used as critical ingredients of National Innovation Systems (termed the Cultural Innovation Sub-system), especially in developing nations.