Innovation and Social Indicators for Six Mediterranean Island Regions, 2014-2023

Six Mediterranean island regions are covered by this panel dataset tracking innovation indices and social indicators from 2014 to 2023. Maria Mamaki compiled the data, which was extracted from Eurostat and the European Commission's Regional Innovation Scoreboard. The dataset was last updated on June 2, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling the impact of innovation on regional social performance based on the described indices.
• Conducting longitudinal analysis of social development trends in Mediterranean islands over the decade.
• Benchmarking regional innovation scores against social indicators for comparative studies.
• Training econometric models for panel data analysis on regional development drivers.

Strengths

• Data covers a consistent 10-year time range from 2014 to 2023.
• Sources are authoritative, explicitly citing Eurostat and the European Commission's Regional Innovation Scoreboard.
• The dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 36.5 KB, indicating limited scope or aggregated data.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for certain analyses.

Provenance

Source

Eurostat and the European Commission's Regional Innovation Scoreboard.

Collection Method

Extracted and processed from the cited official URLs.

Time Range

2014-2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 10:53:51; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Six Mediterranean island regions.