Statystyczna analiza innowacyjności regionów w Polsce
Statistical analysis of regional innovation in Poland

Summary/Abstract: Regional innovation is a complex economic category and in the era of knowledge-based economy it determines regional development. The ambiguity of its measurement, which is the consequence of problems with the quantification of the test area as well as the difficulties arising from the lack or limited availability of certain empirical data, is a methodological challenge that makes scientific and public services of statistics play a huge role in the diagnosis of the problem. This issue has been developed and perfected for decades and recently research in this area has gained more importance. What proves to be extremely useful here are quantitative methods, in particular the methods of multivariate statistical analysis (SAW). In this article, by using the capabilities of public information databases of the CSO (GUS), a set of regional innovation indicators in Poland has been proposed – the set methodically convergent with EU guidelines. The region is associated with each of the sixteen existing voivodships. By using selected SAW methods changes in this area in recent years in Poland has been analyzed, including the assessment of the similarity of results over time.

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