In my last paper “Measuring National Innovation Systems Efficiency – A Review of DEA Approach”
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2304735 I did the overview of 11 empirical studies on cross-country analysis of NIS efficiency with data envelopment analysis technique DEA technique.
The main conclusions are the following:
- In all reviewed studies we can see the bias toward Western European and North American countries in the content of country samples
- Persian Gulf, Caucasian, African (expect of South Africa and Egypt) countries were not used in the analysis in all reviewed studies;
- In most cases authors take quite little samples of countries (less than 30 countries);
- The set of output variables seriously matters for the list of efficient countries in reviewed countries;
- Japan and Ireland are the efficient countries in six of 11 reviewed studies;
- “Small” countries become the efficient countries primarily due to the set of studied countries in specific paper.
My questions to you:
- Can we apply the term “efficiency” to national innovation systems?
- What are the key factors of efficiency of national innovation system and how they can be measured?
- What are unmeasurable aspects of national innovation systems efficiency?
- Can we compare national innovation systems in different countries at all?
- What other methods expect of DEA can be applied for measuring the efficiency of national innovation systems?
Thanks in advance for your answers and comments!
My other papers are available here
