TY - BOOK
T1 - Measuring broad-based innovation
A2 - Nieminen, Mika
A2 - Lehtoranta, Olavi
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The book contributes to the discussion of monitoring and
measuring broadbased innovation. The major questions are:
are available indicators working properly, and can we
find new perspectives on or indicators for innovation
processes? The study discusses and investigates many
aspects of measurement, logic of measurement, challenges
encountered in measurement, possible solutions, and
complementary measurement frameworks. While the study
provides critical perspectives on extending innovation
measurement and is sceptical whether current statistics
serve in best possible way policy-making, it suggests
also new, improved measurements and indicators. For
instance, public-sector innovation and other
organisations and service innovations should be more
widely included in innovation surveys. Also the
measurement of user and consumer innovation should be
further developed. We should also find new methodologies
to better catch the networked and systemic character of
innovation like ones that utilize internet-based sources
and 'big data'. Some of the conclusions of the study are
that innovation statistics should make a clearer
distinction between an invention, the innovation process
and the diffusion process, the different character of
innovations should be better taken into account, and the
factors promoting and hampering innovations should be
included more clearly in the measurements than at
present.
AB - The book contributes to the discussion of monitoring and
measuring broadbased innovation. The major questions are:
are available indicators working properly, and can we
find new perspectives on or indicators for innovation
processes? The study discusses and investigates many
aspects of measurement, logic of measurement, challenges
encountered in measurement, possible solutions, and
complementary measurement frameworks. While the study
provides critical perspectives on extending innovation
measurement and is sceptical whether current statistics
serve in best possible way policy-making, it suggests
also new, improved measurements and indicators. For
instance, public-sector innovation and other
organisations and service innovations should be more
widely included in innovation surveys. Also the
measurement of user and consumer innovation should be
further developed. We should also find new methodologies
to better catch the networked and systemic character of
innovation like ones that utilize internet-based sources
and 'big data'. Some of the conclusions of the study are
that innovation statistics should make a clearer
distinction between an invention, the innovation process
and the diffusion process, the different character of
innovations should be better taken into account, and the
factors promoting and hampering innovations should be
included more clearly in the measurements than at
present.
KW - innovation statistics
KW - broad-based innovation
KW - innovation measurement
KW - innovation indicators
M3 - Report
SN - 978-951-38-8385-0
T3 - VTT Technology
BT - Measuring broad-based innovation
PB - VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
CY - Espoo
ER -