The TASICI 2.0 captures the innovation performance of 121 regions across 7 countries and 2 continents: Austria (8 regions), Germany (13 regions), Hungary (7 regions), Italy (20 regions), Poland (16 regions), Sweden (7 regions), and the United States (50 states). In this report, we refer to the U.S. states as regions to simplify the comparative analysis.

This report considers 13 indicators (which were found to be commonly available across the 121 regions of these seven countries) representing the relevant determinants of a successful innovation ecosystem, grouped into three categories:

▪ Knowledge-Based Workforce: Indicators measure the educational attainment of the workforce; immigration of knowledge workers; employment in professional, technical, and scientific (PTS) activities; and manufacturing sector productivity.

▪ Globalization: Indicators measure high-tech exports and inward foreign direct investment (FDI).

▪ Innovation Capacity: Indicators measure a state’s share of households subscribing to broadband Internet, expenditures on R&D, the number of R&D personnel, the creation of new businesses, patent output, the extent of progress toward decarbonization, and venture capital (VC) investment.

The most important category of the TASICI 2.0 is innovation capacity, which accounts for 56 percent of the index’s weight, while the knowledge economy indicators account for 31 percent of the index’s weight, and the globalization indicators account for the remaining 13 percent.

Rankings

Table 1: Overall and component performance of regions in TASICI 2.0

Overall Rank			Overall Score	Knowledge		Globalization		Innovation
	Country	Region		Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
1	USA	Massachusetts	95.3	94.9	1	31.9	38	95.4	1
2	USA	California	88.8	89.1	4	21.3	69	92.0	2
3	Germany	Baden-Württemberg	85.3	64.4	19	49.6	8	90.9	3
4	USA	Washington	80.3	71.6	11	15.6	87	90.1	4
5	Sweden	Greater Metropolitan Region	79.2	91.6	3	28.1	45	75.2	5
6	Sweden	West Sweden	69.8	71.4	12	32.8	31	70.5	8
7	Germany	Bavaria	69.5	63.6	20	44.6	11	70.5	7
8	Sweden	South Sweden	65.7	67.5	16	33.9	25	66.3	9
9	Germany	Hesse	64.5	71.6	10	38.4	17	61.4	11
10	USA	Maryland	62.9	86.3	5	15.7	86	58.4	13
11	Germany	Berlin/Brandenburg	61.9	82.4	7	17.7	80	58.3	14
12	USA	New Jersey	58.2	91.9	2	13.1	100	49.9	23
13	USA	Oregon	57.0	55.3	30	25.9	55	62.2	10
14	Austria	Lower Austria/Vienna	55.6	66.4	18	4.2	121	61.1	12
15	USA	Connecticut	53.1	74.2	8	25.9	54	47.6	28
16	Austria	Styria	52.7	34.1	78	10.2	106	70.9	6
17	USA	Delaware	52.1	62.2	22	22.8	63	53.0	20
18	USA	Colorado	51.1	68.9	15	27.2	49	47.0	29
19	Germany	Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein	50.9	69.5	13	28.4	44	46.1	31
20	USA	Michigan	48.8	50.6	38	17.8	79	55.4	18
21	Italy	Emilia-Romagna	48.2	45.8	48	36.9	21	51.3	21
22	Germany	North Rhine-Westphalia	47.8	57.6	26	32.0	37	46.4	30
23	USA	New Hampshire	47.5	48.3	42	30.9	41	50.9	22
24	USA	New Mexico	47.3	44.1	50	15.2	90	57.1	15
25	USA	New York	47.3	69.4	14	22.5	64	42.7	36
26	USA	Minnesota	47.0	58.7	25	21.5	68	47.8	26
27	USA	Utah	46.9	54.5	31	22.4	65	49.5	24
28	Germany	Bremen/Lower Saxony	46.2	55.5	28	23.5	59	47.7	27
29	USA	Virginia	44.3	83.2	6	23.0	62	31.7	62
30	Germany	Rhineland-Palatinate	44.0	50.7	37	26.8	50	46.0	32
31	USA	Illinois	43.8	67.2	17	27.4	46	37.5	49
32	USA	Texas	43.7	73.4	9	32.4	34	32.9	61
33	Hungary	Central Hungary	43.4	31.0	84	49.0	9	48.1	25
34	Germany	Saxony	42.5	49.3	41	30.2	42	43.5	34
35	Austria	Upper Austria	42.1	33.0	81	11.1	105	56.3	17
36	Italy	Lombardy	41.8	52.3	33	43.7	12	37.2	50
37	Germany	Saarland	41.1	46.4	44	36.5	22	41.2	38
38	Austria	Tyrol	41.1	31.3	83	6.7	119	57.0	16
39	Austria	Vorarlberg	40.6	30.5	87	11.6	103	55.2	19
40	USA	North Carolina	40.3	60.3	23	12.1	102	40.2	40
41	Sweden	Upper Norrland	39.8	49.4	40	23.0	61	41.7	37
42	Italy	Lazio	38.8	55.4	29	21.5	67	37.8	47
43	USA	Pennsylvania	38.5	56.1	27	18.6	74	37.9	46
44	Italy	Piedmont	38.2	40.4	58	38.2	18	39.5	42
45	USA	Arizona	37.4	51.5	36	20.2	71	38.0	45
46	Germany	Thuringia	37.2	43.6	51	27.4	47	39.6	41
47	Italy	Friuli-Venezia Giulia	36.8	38.2	66	35.6	24	39.3	43
48	USA	Idaho	35.9	34.2	74	18.9	73	44.7	33
49	Poland	Dolnośląskie	35.8	31.0	85	56.5	7	35.4	53
50	Austria	Salzburg	35.0	46.0	47	8.1	114	40.9	39
51	Sweden	Småland and the Islands	34.9	39.4	61	42.8	13	34.0	57
52	USA	Wisconsin	33.7	38.3	65	26.6	52	37.5	48
53	USA	Rhode Island	33.5	46.3	45	22.2	66	34.5	54
54	Hungary	Central Transdanubia	33.5	19.2	103	95.8	2	26.5	73
55	Italy	Veneto	33.4	35.9	72	31.5	39	36.8	52
56	Poland	Małopolskie	33.1	21.2	100	31.5	40	43.5	35
57	USA	Missouri	32.4	44.6	49	32.4	32	30.9	63
58	USA	Ohio	32.3	47.2	43	18.3	76	33.6	58
59	Italy	Tuscany	32.0	37.5	70	21.2	70	37.0	51
60	Hungary	Western Transdanubia	30.6	19.9	102	95.8	2	22.2	88
61	Germany	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	30.6	41.5	54	17.5	81	34.2	56
62	Austria	Carinthia	30.5	38.7	63	8.0	115	38.2	44
63	USA	Indiana	30.3	42.6	53	14.0	93	34.3	55
64	Italy	Liguria	29.2	41.2	55	24.5	57	30.2	64
65	Poland	Pomorskie	29.1	26.6	93	37.9	20	33.4	60
66	Sweden	North Middle Sweden	28.5	40.5	57	33.0	28	27.2	69
67	USA	Kansas	28.4	50.3	39	15.9	84	27.3	68
68	USA	Georgia	28.4	51.6	34	13.2	99	27.3	67
69	USA	Florida	27.9	54.4	32	13.3	98	25.3	79
70	Hungary	Southern Great Plain	27.3	21.7	99	62.9	4	26.1	77
71	Poland	Mazowieckie	26.6	51.6	35	36.0	23	18.3	103
72	Italy	Marche	26.2	29.7	90	18.1	78	33.5	59
73	Hungary	Northern Hungary	26.0	18.7	105	95.8	2	16.2	109
74	USA	Wyoming	25.6	58.8	24	9.6	110	21.0	94
75	Italy	Trentino	24.6	32.2	82	18.6	75	29.8	65
76	Italy	Abruzzo	24.5	34.2	76	26.8	51	26.4	74
77	Poland	Śląskie	24.5	23.4	97	45.8	10	26.1	76
78	Sweden	Middle Norrland	24.5	40.3	59	26.4	53	23.5	84
79	Germany	Saxony-Anhalt	24.1	40.3	60	14.5	91	26.4	75
80	Italy	Umbria	23.8	34.2	75	16.9	83	28.3	66
81	Hungary	Northern Great Plain	23.6	18.4	106	62.8	5	22.5	87
82	USA	Iowa	22.9	37.0	71	12.2	101	27.0	71
83	USA	Vermont	22.7	37.7	69	32.8	29	20.4	95
84	USA	Tennessee	22.6	42.6	52	15.3	89	22.9	85
85	USA	Maine	22.4	37.8	68	32.8	30	20.0	97
86	Hungary	Southern Transdanubia	21.9	11.4	117	58.1	6	24.8	80
87	USA	Nevada	21.4	39.1	62	15.9	85	22.8	86
88	USA	Nebraska	21.3	46.1	46	13.8	94	19.8	99
89	Poland	Lubuskie	20.1	12.8	113	39.6	16	26.9	72
90	Poland	Wielkopolskie	19.7	17.2	108	39.6	15	24.3	81
91	USA	Kentucky	19.0	34.0	79	32.1	36	17.3	104
92	USA	South Carolina	18.3	37.9	67	13.6	96	19.7	102
93	Italy	Campania	18.3	23.9	96	11.2	104	27.1	70
94	USA	North Dakota	18.0	35.8	73	15.6	88	19.7	101
95	USA	Louisiana	17.5	62.8	21	9.5	111	7.7	120
96	Poland	Podkarpackie	17.2	11.1	119	38.0	19	24.1	82
97	USA	Alabama	17.2	34.1	77	8.8	113	21.3	93
98	Poland	Lubelskie	17.0	11.8	115	29.2	43	26.1	78
99	Italy	Aosta Valley	15.9	30.5	88	13.7	95	19.9	98
100	Poland	Zachodniopomorskie	15.8	15.2	112	32.2	35	21.9	89
101	Poland	Kujawsko-Pomorskie	15.8	11.2	118	32.4	33	23.7	83
102	USA	Montana	15.2	40.6	56	7.1	116	15.9	112
103	Italy	Basilicata	14.9	27.7	92	23.8	58	16.9	106
104	USA	Hawaii	14.7	38.6	64	6.7	118	16.2	110
105	USA	Oklahoma	14.2	33.5	80	17.5	82	15.0	113
106	Poland	Podlaskie	13.8	12.7	114	27.3	48	21.6	92
107	Italy	Molise	13.7	23.2	98	9.0	112	21.7	91
108	Italy	Sardinia	13.0	24.0	95	9.7	109	20.1	96
109	Poland	Łódzkie	12.7	20.2	101	33.4	26	14.8	114
110	Poland	Opolskie	12.6	11.6	116	42.2	14	16.2	111
111	USA	Alaska	11.2	30.1	89	13.5	97	13.5	116
112	Poland	Warmińsko-Mazurskie	11.1	5.1	121	33.3	27	19.8	100
113	Austria	Burgenland	10.6	15.3	111	6.7	117	21.7	90
114	USA	South Dakota	10.3	24.8	94	19.4	72	13.1	117
115	USA	Arkansas	9.2	27.9	91	14.2	92	11.6	118
116	Italy	Apulia	9.2	19.2	104	9.8	108	17.0	105
117	Italy	Sicily	8.1	16.8	109	9.9	107	16.5	107
118	Poland	Świętokrzyskie	7.7	11.0	120	25.6	56	14.3	115
119	USA	West Virginia	7.2	30.8	86	23.5	60	4.6	121
120	Italy	Calabria	7.0	16.6	110	5.4	120	16.4	108
121	USA	Mississippi	4.7	17.4	107	18.2	77	9.0	119