User innovation and the market

This paper proposes a way of including in official statistics consumers as user innovators who modify or develop products for their own use. The issue addressed is the role of the market in the definition of innovation in the OECD/Eurostat Oslo Manual and the exclusion by the definition of consumers who modify or develop products and then freely reveal the knowledge gained to others. A modest proposal is made for a change to the definition which also has implications for the measurement of innovation in the public sector. The policy implications of user innovation by consumers and by firms are considered along with the importance of including consumer user innovation in official statistics. The paper ends with a programme for future work.User innovation, consumer innovation, public sector innovation, official statistics

Social impacts of the development of science, technology and innovation indicators

This paper examines the social impacts of the development of science, technology and innovation indicators. The approach deals separately with the development process and with the use of the indicators that result. Underlying the discussion is an assumption that indicators are a technology, a product, which governs behaviour, is modified by users (outside of the producer community), and develops in response to user needs. Science and technology indicators are considered separately from innovation indicators, and the importance of language based on codified and tacit knowledge is emphasized. The knowledge is codified in manuals, and the tacit knowledge is held in overlapping communities of practice that develop the manuals, gather the data, produce the indicators and use them. Finally, there is a discussion of how this process changes and renews itself.Economic impacts, social impacts, innovation indicators, science and technology indicators, indicators, social constructs, knowledge

Consumer innovation in Finland : incidence, diffusion and policy implications

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Indicators of Science, Technology and Innovation Presenation

This presentation provides valuable references to various manuals/guidelines that can discriminate differences between indicators, such as those for Research and Development, and those that apply to Science and Technology. The reference manuals can provide guidelines for the collection and interpretation of data and for international comparisons of data, statistics and indicators. At the same time, these standards are supported by an international infrastructure. Manuals provide a language of discourse and behave as codified knowledge. Patents; Technological Balance of Payments; Human Resources for Science and Technology; Bibliometrics; Innovation Systems, and others provide standardized indicators from which to analyze diverse levels of innovation

Innovation strategies for a global economy : development, implementation, measurement and management

Co-published with Edward Elgar PublishingThis book is about innovation, what it is and how it is measured, the use of indicators in policy and the policy learning that results. Framework conditions such as market regulation and the cost of doing business are examined. The book considers innovation strategies for a global economy, their development, implementation, measurement and management. Innovation systems are global, complex, dynamic and non-linear in response to policy intervention. Thus the focus turns to a science of innovation policy, essential to an understanding of non- linear innovation systems sufficient to support policy learning and effective intervention

Measuring Innovation Everywhere: The Challenge of Better Policy, Learning, Evaluation and Monitoring

This book is about measuring innovation, not just in the business sector but in every sector of the economy, using, for the first time, an internationally agreed general definition of innovation. The resulting indicators can be used to inform policy development, and offer a better understanding of the impact of the innovation policy of governments, the strategy of businesses and the practice of households, in a more digital economy. Innovation is a systems phenomenon and systems provide a structure throughout the book

OECD Innovation Strategy and the Development Agenda

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Development of an innovation strategy : experiences from Africa

The table of contents for this item can be shared with the requester. The requester may then choose one chapter, up to 10% of the item, as per the Fair Dealing provision of the Canadian Copyright ActThe presentation analyzes innovation strategies and how to build an innovation strategy in the context of African countries. An innovation strategy or policy is an intention of government to influence the activity of innovation for a reason, such as jobs and growth. It may or may not include targets. An example is a tax policy to promote capital investment in ICTs