Innovation Index

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Innovation Nation, the DIUS White Paper on innovation (March 2008) states that NESTA will 'develop an Innovation Index to measure UK innovation in the round ... A pilot index will be published in 2009 with a fuller system in place by 2010.'

Innovation Index Working Papers

1. An Innovation Index Based on Knowledge Capital Investment
Tony Clayton, Mariela Dal Borgo and Jonathan Haskel - September 2008

2. Proposal for Measures of Firm-Level Innovation Performance in 12 Sectors of UK Industry
Richard Adams, Andy Neely, Bassil Yaghi and John Bessant - September 2008

3. Wider Conditions for Innovation
Diane Coyle and Mary Beth Childs - September 2008

4-1. Innovation in Government Organizations, Public Sector Agencies and Public Service NGOs LSE Public Policy Group - September 2008

4-2. Innovation in the Public and Third sectors
John Clark, Barbara Good and Paul Simmonds - September 2008

5. TFP, Welfare and Innovation: The Implications for an Index of Innovation
Dolores Añón Higón and Paul Stoneman - September 2008

6-1. Innovation and Well-being
Paul Dolan, Rob Metcalfe, Nick Powdthavee, Andy Beale and David Pritchard - September 2008

6-2. Innovation and Well-being
Richard Miller, Nic Marks and Juliet Michaelson - September 2008

7. Testing an extended R&D survey: Interviews with firms on innovation investment and depreciation
Damian Whittard, Mark Franklin, Peter Stam and Tony Clayton - April 2009

8. Measuring the nature of demand for innovation in the UK: The challenges of an indicator approach
Katherine Ashby and Michelle Mahdon - June 2009

Public Sector Innovation Measurement: An International Conference

The OECD, the UK Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills, NESTA and Demark's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation jointly organized a conference on the measurement of innovation in the public sector in London on March 9 and 10.

The aim of the conference was to provide opportunities for representatives of many countries to learn from each other’s experiences and to set the agenda for future international co-operation on this topic. It combined a policy session on the first day that set the priorities with technical sessions to discuss the way forward on the second day.

Presentations from the conference are now in the 'Innovation Index Library'.

Blog Posts

Kate McKenzie

Article from Government Technology 2009

Future gazing is a difficult art form and the likelihood of getting it right is very low. Reading from today into tomorrow is notorious for many hostages to fortune – most of us get it wrong! There are however, a number of relative certainties that can provide a structure for looking at how society might develop and what the role of schools in the future might be. There are a number of things we know now that will impact on our society and economy and that will shape how we develop schools to em… Continue

Posted by Kate McKenzie on January 9, 2010 at 5:36pm

Ashish Lall

An Interesting Metaphor

"Innovation is like a coral reef. Marine biologists don’t fully understand what causes reefs to form ... but we do know that human actions can nurture or harm the process. The same is true for innovation—a natural, chaotic, unpredictable process that is hard, perhaps even impossible, for well-meaning outsiders to foster. If we try to control or micromanage innovation, we risk squeezing out the very life forces that give rise to successful new ideas. Instead, we must focus on finding ways to nurt… Continue

Posted by Ashish Lall on November 24, 2009 at 2:00pm — 3 Comments

Kate McKenzie

Innovation in Education

One of the most exciting project I'm currently involved with is the creation of a learning campus on the Isle of Wight. The campus will contain a new secondary school whose teaching and learning structure is based in a different way of approaching the curriculum. The building will support a focus on vocational skills, expecting young people to ready and prepared for the world of work and ground them in learning techniques which will enable them to have confidence to meet the challenges of the wo… Continue

Posted by Kate McKenzie on November 7, 2009 at 10:09am — 3 Comments

Richard Ferrers

President Obama gives innovation speech, outlines US innovation policy

See Obama speech (21 Sept 09) and white paper written by National Economic Council - Larry Summers at http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/nec/StrategyforAmericanInnovation/

Speech linked to blog post - http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/A-Vision-for-Innovation-Growth-and-Qualit… Continue

Posted by Richard Ferrers on September 22, 2009 at 3:29am — 3 Comments

Charles William Blake

Innovating using intangibles

Moons ago I ran a number of intellectual property audits for a major UK defense research organisation. In the process I developed a measure of innovation. It started with the goals of the group or sector. The ideal condition of seven sets intangible assets for the achievement of the goals was predicted with the help fo the management. These assets were defined as culture, capability, infrastructure, market, human centered, process and intellectual property. Measuring their existing state against… Continue

Posted by Charles William Blake on September 11, 2009 at 11:34am — 2 Comments

Vadim Grinevich

Innovation performance score

McKinsey's Jens-Olaf Berwig, Nathan Marston, Lauri Pukkinen, and Lothar Stein present their method for measuring a firm's innovation performance

Posted by Vadim Grinevich on September 8, 2009 at 2:33pm — 1 Comment

Richard Ferrers

Innovation Census - Tasmania (Aug 2008)

At a conference at Melbourne University, I attended this week (Creating the Knowledge Economy), Professor Johnathan Ross of the AIRC (www.airc.org.au) - Australian Innovation Research Centre, based at the University of Tasmania announced his work on a Tasmanian Innovation Census, which involved talking to every firm in Tasmania with more than five people, to find out about their innovation.

See their report here - http://www.airc.org.au/extras/949.AIRC9007%20Inno%20Tas%20Report_Small_Fil… Continue

Posted by Richard Ferrers on August 6, 2009 at 5:00am — 1 Comment

Mike Morrison

Innovation Index - measuring the unmeasurable or re-inventing the wheel?

Innovation - product, technology or attitude and culture...

Innovation means so many things to so many people, so first we need to have a common understanding of what innovation is.

Dr Richard Byrd from the University of Minnesota in the 1960s and 70s undertook some interesting work (see A Personal Guide to Risk Taking Richard E Byrd, AMACOM 1974), which has been further developed by Dr Jacqueline Byrd from a tool that now looks at the innovation capacity of individuals as well as teams and or… Continue

Posted by Mike Morrison on July 31, 2009 at 10:39am — 2 Comments

Ashish Lall

Innovation Index

An Innovation Index from the National Association of Manufacturers in the U.S. released a couple of months ago.

Download:
http://www.nam.org/~/media/AboutUs/ManufacturingInstitute/innovationreport.ashx

Posted by Ashish Lall on June 9, 2009 at 5:01pm

Richard Ferrers

Jul 2008 - Melbourne Institure reports Australian Business Innovation Measures

See the press release (30.07.2008) for the 2008 Aust Innovation Report here - http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/news/news/media_releases/2008/IBMMELB2008.html

and the pdf report here -
http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/publications/innovation/IBM_MI_Innovation_Index_2nd_Ed.pdf

Covers business in… Continue

Posted by Richard Ferrers on March 30, 2009 at 2:00am

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Innovation Index library

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