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The objective of this paper is to analyse and classify European Union regions according to human capital and innovativeness. Innovativeness of 225 European Union NUTS-2 regions within 2008–2010 is analysed with special attention paid to human capital. 18 indicators of innovativeness and human capital were adapted and transformed into four mutually orthogonal components, with use of factor analysis. The use of factor analysis eliminated portions of information overlapping in indicators proposed in the beginning of the analysis. It is one of the beneficial differences between the approach presented in this paper and the Regional Innovation Scoreboard. A second difference is the scope, for in this article the specific meaning of human capital in the innovation process was highlighted. On this basis the EU regions were classified in five homogeneous groups. It enabled the authors to draw conclusions concerning the areas of innovativeness which need specific support and the potential to be exploited.

Dr Anna Lewandowska
University of Information, Technology and Management in Rzeszów

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This page is a summary of: Human capital and innovativeness of the European Union regions, Innovation The European Journal of Social Science Research, October 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13511610.2014.962487.
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