Regional innovation in southern Europe: a poset-based analysis

This paper examines the performance of regional innovation across the 60 southern European regions of Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. A poset-based analysis is carried out in two phases. The first phase establishes a ranking of the clusters in which regions are grouped to identify patterns of comparable regions. The second phase focuses on the country level, where the regions of each of the four countries are ranked into five different performance levels. The outcomes of the two phases are compared with the results described in the Regional Innovation Scoreboard 2019, with a view to providing insights for policymakers.