Composite indicators play a very useful role in supporting international policy entrepreneurship, helping to inform … Analysis (Fuzzy-DEA) model to construct composite indicators based on time series under the Pressure-State-Response (PSR …) approach in order to evaluate water security in 10 European water security hotspots. First, we identified nine indicators …

We consider efficiency measurement methods in the presence of uncertain input and output data, and without the …, resulting in more accurate efficiency estimates and narrower bounds for the efficiency scores of individual Decision Making … cases where efficiency estimates have to be computed on the fly, as in interactive decision support systems based on large …

). Chapter 1 gives some basic introduction to uncertain theories, including probability theory, credibility theory, uncertainty … uncertain DEA. In order to evaluate the DMUs in which uncertainty and randomness appear simultaneously, the hybrid DEA based on …

We measure the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function … spatial autocorrelation. -- Knowledge ; innovation ; spillovers ; patents ; regional analysis …

regional innovation efficiency, we propose a new measure that eases the issue of choosing between industry-specific or global … measures. We argue for the use of a robust shared-input DEA-model to estimate regions' innovation efficiency in a global manner …, while it can be disaggregated into industry-specific innovation efficiency measures. The latter is particularly useful when …