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Measuring public innovation in the EU: the STARPIN methodology
Full text linkThis work accounts for, and synthesises the main results of, the StarPIN project — Statistical
Reporting on Public Innovation — developed by the Dipartimento di Economia, Società,
Politica (DESP) of the University of Urbino, Italy, with the support of dialogic — innovatie.
interactie, Utrecht, the Netherlands. The StarPIN project was supported by Eurostat’s Unit working
on innovation statistics. The StarPIN team was composed of Annaflavia Bianchi, Claudio Cozza,
Giovanni Marin, Robbin Te Velde, Antonello Zanfei, and Emy Zecca. Gregor Kyi and Giulio Perani
were the Eurostat project managers and Stefania Panaitescu ensured editing and support.
The project proposes a theoretical and a methodological framework for enriching the measurement
ability of public sector innovation, and discusses the implications for data collection and analysis. A
preliminary test of the framework is carried out by means of pilot applications to specific public
services.
The project focuses on public service innovation as a key locus of value creation for society,
choosing an object-based rather than the more commonly adopted subject-based approach. Issues
concerning the measurement of public service innovation are addressed in statistical terms and
consistently with the official public sector functions classifications. The approach places particular
emphasis on web-scraping to capture the technological level of websites used by public
administrations, and to evaluate the degree of innovativeness of specific services within selected
public functions. Data collected through web-scraping can be combined with administrative data at
the level of individual services. The paper presents pilot applications to specific public services in a
limited number of countries.
The paper is structured according to the following steps: First a theoretical framework is sketched for
the analysis of innovation in the public sector, focusing on service innovation and public value
creation. Second, the consistency between public functions, public institutions and public service
classifications is discussed. Third, the indicators of innovativeness are generated for selected public
services. Fourth, the paper illustrates the main lessons learnt from the pilot application of the
methodological framework, and draws implications for future research. A user manual is annexed to
the paper for replicating the pilot tests described in the paper
Digital Building Permit Application: A Feasibility Study for a Shared Services Solution in the Netherlands
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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