This paper addresses two methodological issues concerning the construction of a composite indicator of national competitiveness. The first is the choice of weights to be used to aggregate the underlying primitive data. Most composite indicators use predetermined fixed weight values that are then...

This paper develops a “Composite Index of the Creative Economy” (CICE) for the purpose of benchmarking an entity’s (e.g., country or region) creative capacity as reflected by it’s achievement in three dimensions: Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Openness. To determine the weight each...