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Measuring innovation output using documentary and digital sources

Innovation output indicators. Freeman/Schumpeter definition of innovation The entry of a new product, process or practice into commercial (or social) useLimitations of

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Measuring innovation output using documentary and digital sources

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    1. Measuring innovation output using documentary and digital sources Fred Steward Eco-innovation indicators workshop Brussels 8 February 2008

    2. Innovation output indicators Freeman/Schumpeter definition of innovation The entry of a new product, process or practice into commercial (or social) use Limitations of ‘input’ and ‘indirect’ indicators The quest for direct monitoring of singular innovations What about system innovation?

    3. Two traditional solutions Sector based specificity eg New Chemical Entities in pharmaceuticals (method – investigator capability) Significance based selectivity eg SPRU significant innovations database (method – expert review)

    4. The quest for new output indicators Universal Cross sectoral, full range of economy and society Inclusive Radical & incremental Product, process, practice Situated Discrete, time-specific and organisation-specific

    5. Literature based innovation outputs A collection of trade journals New product announcements section Identification of innovations Classification of innovations Assumes propensity of companies to announce their innovations Assisted by selection competence of editors

    6. Successful empirical applications US 1882, Netherlands 1990s, Italy, UK 1996 Some annual sets of national innovation indicators Successful management of heterogeneity Never applied substantively across nations and time Classification of innovations has not included environmental impacts

    7. Literature based ecoinnovation studies Two studies using related but different methods TEI database (Huber 2004) Domestic products (Newell 1998)

    8. TEI database 500 innovations continuous survey of 9 technology journals between 2000 and 2003. Technologies qualified for entry if they ‘improved on metabolic consistency or significantly increased eco-efficiency’. More like a literature review though it does capture a reports element. Only about a third of the innovations were captured at the point of market entry.

    10. Product catalogue database Newell used the annual Sears catalogue between 1958 and 1993 database of 735 room air conditioners, 275 central air conditioners and 415 gas water heaters data on year of market entry, price and environmental and energy performance.

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