Defining indicators and
developing Dashboards: South West Sydney Regional
Innovation Dashboard
FIELD Seminar – Paris, 21 June 2010
Dr Cristina Martinez-Fernandez
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Why a Dashboard?
The software can be downloaded from http://esl.jrc.it/dc/
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Addressing Local Complexity
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Step 1 – conceptual understanding
Step 2 – identify drivers
Step 3 – identify indicators
Step 3 – identify indicators
Step 4 – Build Dashboard (S-CE)
Step 4 – Build Dashboard (S-L)
Step 4 – Build Dashboard (S-A)
Regional Innovation Dashboard
Lessons and Challenges
• Visual tool for policy discussion
• Highlights issues of data systems
• Limitations of small number of cases
• Examining policy fields and generating indexes
• The issue of scale for analysis
• Horizontal analysis versus vertical analysis
• Resources