Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Gault F. 
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Where are innovation indicators, and their applications, going?
Abstract: This paper reviews the current state of indicators of the activity of  innovation and how they are presented for use in the policy process  leading to a discussion of the development of new indicators, some  outside of the business sector, which raises questions about the  definition of innovation. This is followed by a review of plans for the  evolution of innovation indicators and their use over the next few  years. These plans, national and international, are diverse and this  leads to a discussion of international organizations and forums which  could facilitate progress towards new indicators and a better  understanding of innovation systems.
Keywords: Technological Change; Research and Development; Intellectual Property Rights: General; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives; Technological Change: Government Policy; Cultural Economics: Public Policy; 
Classification-JEL: O30; O31; O38; Z18; .
Series:  Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2014
Number: 055
File-URL: http://pub.maastrichtuniversity.nl/69878210-1de6-4f8d-b9bd-f102546a6689
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 192870
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2014055