Measuring What Matters-Indicators of Social Innovativeness on the National Level

Information Systems Management

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 200-224

  Krlev, Gorgi ^a   Bund, Eva ^a   Mildenberger, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

indicators; information system; innovation; measurement; metrics; social innovation

Indexed keywords

INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INNOVATION; MEASUREMENTS;

CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING; INNOVATIVENESS; MEASUREMENT MODEL; METRICS; NATIONAL LEVEL; POLICY MAKING; SOCIAL INNOVATIONS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

HARDWARE;

EID: 84904170313     PISSN: 10580530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10580530.2014.923265     Document Type: Article

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