EDA Regional Innovation Systems Data Tools

Welcome to the EDA's Regional Innovation Asset Toolkit. These reports and maps are designed to help policy makers and citizens assess and improve the innovation capacity of their region by providing the most up-to-date information available on a variety of innovation assets.

Please choose from the selections below to find out more information.

Innovation Report

Use this tool to compare your state's innovation scores to the national average, census region or contiguous states. Here you'll find composite scores for three innovation categories — knowledge creation, knowledge diffusion and commercialization and absorption. And you'll find indexes for all 34 indicators used in this study.

Annotated Bibliography

Click on the link above to download an annotated bibliography of Regional Innovation Systems literature. The bibliography includes abstracts and comments from the project team.

Mapping Tool

Use this tool to map the innovation scores across the United States. Available data include indexes compared to the national average, as well as tables of raw data, including data imputed by the project team.