Paper in PDFSilvestru MAXIMILIAN, PhD, Professor, ULIM
Liudmila TODOROVA, PhD Student, MSU
The innovation process encompasses a variety of activities, fundamental and applied scientific research, scientific achievements based on experiments, engineering solutions and their implementation, that are able to produce economic, technological, environmental and social effects. May be found hundreds of indicators that are published periodically in statistics in order to assess the innovative activity. This article presents the methodological aspects regarding the development of integrated innovation indicators of a country and its regions to promote both economic and social development through the enhanced of innovative activity which is to ensure the competitiveness of goods and services. The innovation indicators are used because they are integrated into theoretical models that contain hypotheses on the interrelations between the innovative activity and economic growth.