№ 

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 

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 

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 

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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