Transcript Measuring Research and Experimental Development

Measuring innovation:
Main definitions - Part I
South East Asian Regional Workshop on Science, Technology and Innovation Statistics
Hanoi, Viet Nam
5-8 December 2011
Luciana Marins
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Measuring Innovation
Oslo Manual:
Guidelines for collecting
and interpreting
innovation data
UIS - Annex (OM, 2005):
Innovation Surveys in
Developing Countries
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Why measure innovation?
 Innovation and economic development;
 Innovation is more than R&D;
 Innovation policy should be evidence-based;
 Innovation data…
• Understanding
of innovation and its relation to
economic growth;
• Indicators for benchmarking national performance.
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What is innovation?
 Innovation is the implementation of:
• New or significantly improved product or process;
• New marketing or organisational method.
Implementation:

A new or improved product is implemented when it is
introduced on the market;

New processes, marketing methods or organisational
methods are implemented when they are brought into
actual use in the firm’s operations.
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The innovation measurement
framework
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Types of innovation - Product
 Product Innovation:
• Introduction of a good or service that is new or
significantly
improved
with
characteristics or intended uses;
respect
to
its
• New products: different characteristics or intended
uses from previous products;
• Significantly
improvements: changes in materials,
components, and other characteristics that enhance
performance.
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Types of innovation - Process
 Process Innovation:
• Implementation of a new or significantly improved
production or delivery method (changes in techniques,
equipment and/or software);
• Intended to: decrease unit costs of production or
delivery, increase quality, or produce or deliver new or
significantly improved products.
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Types of innovation - Marketing (1)
 Marketing Innovation:
• Implementation of a new marketing method involving
significant changes in product design or packaging,
product placement, product promotion or pricing;
• Better addressing customer needs, opening up new
markets, or newly positioning a firm’s product on the
market  increasing firm’s sales;
• Marketing method NOT previously used - part of a
new marketing concept or strategy;
• For both new and existing products.
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Types of innovation - Marketing (2)
 Marketing Innovation:
• Product design or packing: changes in form and
appearance that do not alter products’ functional or
user characteristics + changes in the packing;
• Product placement: new sales channels;
• Product promotion: new concepts for promoting a
firm’s goods and services;
• Pricing: new pricing strategies to market the firm’s
goods or services.
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Types of innovation - Organisational (1)
 Organisational Innovation:
• Implementation of a new organisational method in the
firm’s business practices, workplace organisation or
external relations;
firm’s
performance
by
reducing
administrative/transaction costs, improving workplace
satisfaction, accessing non-tradable assets, or
reducing costs of supplies;
• Increase
• Organisational method NOT used before - result of
strategic decisions taken by management.
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Types of innovation - Organisational (2)
 Organisational Innovation:
• Business practices: implementation of new methods
for organising routines and procedures for the conduct
of work;
• Workplace organisation: new methods for distributing
responsibilities and
decision making among
employees for the division of work within and between
firm activities + new concepts for the structuring of
activities;
• External relations: new ways of organising relations
with other firms or public institutions.
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Diffusion and degree of novelty
 Degree of novelty:
• Firm;
• Market;
• World;
 Radical innovations:
• Significant impact on a market;
• Impact of innovations (as opposed to their novelty);
• May become apparent only long after introduction.
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