Handbook of Innovation Indicators and Measurement

Edited by Fred Gault, Professorial Fellow, UNU-MERIT, the Netherlands, Professor Extraordinaire and Member of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa, and Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

• Contents:PART I: WHY INDICATORS MATTER1. Innovation Indicators and Measurement: An OverviewFred GaultPART II: DEFINING INNOVATION AND IMPLEMENTING THE DEFINITIONS2. The Oslo ManualFred Gault3. History of the Community Innovation SurveyAnthony Arundel and Keith Smith4. How Firm Managers Understand Innovation: Implications for the Design of Innovation SurveysAnthony Arundel, Kieran O’Brien and Ann Torugsa5. User Innovation: Business and ConsumersJeroen P.J. de Jong and Eric von Hippel PART III: MEASUREMENT6. Innovation Panel Surveys in GermanyBettina Peters and Christian Rammer7. Innovation and R&D Surveys in NorwayFrank Foyn 8. Innovation Surveys: Experience from JapanTomohiro Ijichi PART IV: DEVELOPING AND USING INDICATORS9. The OECD Measurement Agenda for InnovationFernando Galindo-Rueda10. Developing Harmonized Measures of the Dynamics of Organizations and WorkNathalie Greenan and Edward Lorenz11. Scoreboards and Indicator ReportsHugo Hollanders and Norbert Janz PART V: INNOVATION STRATEGY12. The OECD Innovation Strategy: Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators and Innovation PolicyAndrew W. Wyckoff13. The Finnish Approach to Innovation Strategy and IndicatorsEsko Aho, Mikko Alkio and Ilkka Lakaniemi 14. US Innovation Strategy and Policy: An Indicators PerspectiveChristopher T. Hill PART VI: BEYOND THE HORIZON15. Developing and Using Indicators of Emerging and Enabling TechnologiesLeonid Gokhberg, Konstantin Fursov, Ian Miles and Giulio Perani 16. Foresight and Science, Technology and Innovation IndicatorsDirk Meissner and Alexander Sokolov17. Measuring Innovation in the Public SectorCarter Bloch18. Indicators for Social InnovationGeoff Mulgan, Kippy Joseph and Will Norman PART VII: CHALLENGES19. Innovation Indicators and Measurement: ChallengesFred GaultIndex

‘The book is recommended for the scholars in STI studies and scientometrics. The book will also help the practitioners and science policy analysts who are involved in measuring industrial and social innovations at the regional, national, or enterprise-level.’