Innovation futures: new forms of innovation and their implications for innovation policy

Disruptive Innovation: Implications for Competitiveness and Innovation Policy

on behalf of the European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry. INNO makers in adopting appropriate responses to emerging innovation needs, trends and phenomena. It is part of the European Commission's PRO INNO Eur focal point for innovation policy analysis and cooperation. The INNO monitoring (Lot 2) is carried out by empirica GmbH and ICEG European Cent Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köl...

The prevalence of user innovation and free innovation transfers: Implications for statistical indicators and innovation policy

Statistical indicators have not kept pace with innovation research. Today, it is well understood that many industrial and consumer products are developed by users, and that many innovations developed at private cost are freely shared. New statistical indicators will empower policymakers to take advantage of the latest research findings in their innovation policymaking, and will enable them to b...

Innovation surveys and innovation policy

New Data for Innovation Policy

We contend that existing datasets based on survey or administrative data queried via standard industrial and occupational standards are ill suited for the purposes of innovation policy, and therefore, of its ability to attain its goals to address market, system and emergence failures preventing new ideas from being applied. These datasets are constrained in their ability to identify novel secto...

innovation policy: determinants of technological innovation

development of technology is one of the main factors of political change of the modem world. a technological change could change nature and structure of political arrangements of the society. this restructuring of the society could happen by economic and professional change, by creating new division of labor, by creating new classes and new resources, and so on. in this article, first of all, a...