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The name and characteristics of the indicators of the
country according to the original method
Indicators of the regions
according to the adapted method
judiciary and contract enforcement
2
Education index
2.1 Average duration
of study
It is an aggregate indicator of the
educational potential of the country
Education index by the method
of calculating the human
development index
2.2 Enrolment in
secondary
education
The ratio of the number of persons
receiving secondary education to the
total number of persons studying
The ratio of the number of
persons receiving secondary
education to the total number of
persons studying
2.3 Higher education
enrollment
The ratio of the number of persons
receiving higher education to the total
number of persons studying
The ratio of the number of
persons receiving higher
education to the total number of
persons studying
3
Innovation index
3.1 Royalties and
license fees
(payments and
receipts)
Payments and receipts for the use of
intellectual property; use of licenses,
etc.
Business expenses
3.2 Patent applications
submitted to the
United States
Patent and
Trademark Office
Patents for industrial designs, plant
varieties, re-publication, protection
documents, statutory inventions and
registrations
Applications for issuance of
security documents
3.3 Articles in
scientific and
technical journals
Scientific and technical articles on
physics, biology, chemistry,
mathematics, clinical medicine,
biomedical research, engineering and
technology, Earth and space research
Number of articles in scientific
journals
4
Information and Communication Technology Index
4.1 Number of phones
per 1 thousand
people
Considers landline and mobile phones
Provision with telephone sets
(main telephone sets of urban
and rural networks)
4.2 Number of
computers per 1
thousand people
Reflects personal computer coverage
Number of personal computers
in households
4.3 Number of
Internet users per
1 thousand people
Calculated on the basis of national user
surveys or Internet service providers.
Number of Internet subscribers
Source: [29]
Continuing to research the possibilities of improving the procedure and methods
of monitoring the development of regions, we offer our own solution. Generalizing
indicator (synthetic index of regional development) and its components, in our opinion,
can be calculated based on the following sub-indices: regional competitiveness index,
regional human development index, knowledge economy index.
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