Socio-Economic Indicators for Performance Evaluation and Quality Assessment: Statistical Methods and Applications

This Special Issue has drawn inspiration from the Conference “Innovation & Society 2017—Statistical Methods for Evaluation and Quality” (IES2017), held at the University of Naples “Federico II” (Italy) September 6–7, 2017. The IES2017 Conference was the 8th Scientific Meeting of the “Statistics for the Evaluation and Quality of Services Group of the Italian Statistical Society—(SVQS)”. It has been organized to offer an overview of statistical approaches and methodologies on evaluation of services and to contribute to the discussion on services’ innovation evaluation, focusing on various of economic and social policies actors. To make it as useful and constructive as possible, the Conference IES2017 was open to the participation of scholars from several disciplines, experts, development policies managers dealing with the relationships among evaluation, innovation and society.