Spanish Innovation Index releases its 2025 Annual Report
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Spanish Innovation Index releases its 2025 Annual Report

The 2025 Spanish Innovation Index (ÍEI) report examines how consumers perceive company innovation across commercial, social, and digital dimensions. Based on more than 25,100 responses covering 131 companies in 21 sectors, the report highlights continued growth in perceived innovation and identifies the leading companies and sectors in Spain.

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Two new PhD students join the Danish Innovation Index research team at Aarhus University
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Two new PhD students join the Danish Innovation Index research team at Aarhus University

Blanka Tóth and Yushu Li have joined the Danish Innovation Index team at Aarhus University as new PhD students. Their research will explore how consumers perceive responsible, digital, and AI-enabled innovation—and what this means for how companies innovate and create value.

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Customer-Perceived Innovation Takes the Stage at  Frontiers in Service 2026
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Customer-Perceived Innovation Takes the Stage at Frontiers in Service 2026

At Frontiers in Service 2026 in Helsinki, Innovation Index Coalition members Lluís Santamaría, Darius-Aurel Frank, and Timothy L. Keiningham presented research on perceived firm innovativeness, AI-enabled services, and social innovativeness, showing how customer-based innovation measurement continues to inform current debates in service research.

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Insights from the 3rd Spanish Innovation Index Conference
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Insights from the 3rd Spanish Innovation Index Conference

What makes a company truly innovative? Not its patent count or R&D spend — but how its customers experience it. The 3rd Spanish Innovation Index (IEI) Conference, held March 13 at Campus UC3M Puerta de Toledo in Madrid, brought researchers, practitioners, and policymakers together to explore exactly that question.

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The Norwegian Innovation Index wins the 2019 ISSIP Award
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The Norwegian Innovation Index wins the 2019 ISSIP Award

The Distinguished Recognition Award is given to submissions that, in the judgement of the ISSIP Award Committee, represent innovative and impactful service designs and implementations from which service innovators around the world can derive inspiration.

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