THE ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT’S INNOVATION USING REGIONAL INNOVATION INDEX

Abstract

One of the mandates of Law No. 23 of 2014 concerning Local Government is to direct all Local Governments to accelerate the realization of public welfare through regional innovation. Today many innovations have been created and almost everything are related to speed, improvement, and information technology systems. In Global Innovation Index 2018 which ranks innovations globally, the rating of regional innovation Indonesia has raised two ranks from the previous rank, from 87 to 85. The scores obtained by Indonesia were still above the average of middle and lower income countries. However, at least there are a number of weaknesses in Indonesia from the aspects spread in areas of innovation regulation, for example the environment, school funding by the government, the companies willingness to offer formal training, and scientific and technical articles. The purposes for the assessment of Local Government`s innovation are to provide efforts and strength for Local Governments to stimulate their competitiveness through regional innovation. This activity used regional innovation index calculations by performing calculations based on variables: input, process, output, and outcome`s regional innovation. The location of the assessment is all Local Governments in Indonesia. The results in this study explain that there are seven government service innovations. The result of this assessment activity is the input of regional innovation screening data through online information system. However, there are still some obstacles in the input of regional innovation: the absence of data from local governments in eastern Indonesia. Government should give more attention on regional innovation development.