Innovation Index

Welcome to the Innovation Index Project collaborative workspace

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

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 9 June 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 30 March 2009 at 2:00am

Chris Farrell

Within R&D, not Beyond R&D

Richard Ferrers has drawn attention to the latest briefing from the BEA on their treatment of R&D as capital for possibly connecting it to GDP growth – a connection essential to the rigor of any putative innovation metric. However NESTA has stated, in its glossary entry on R&D, that this indicator ‘poorly reflects the true level of innovative activity’. It has also identified the need to go ‘beyond R&D’. But if R is separated from D these approaches can be reconciled, especially if D… Continue

Posted by Chris Farrell on 26 February 2009 at 9:26am

Richard Ferrers

Jan 09 - US Dept of Commerce (BEA) releases paper on innovation measurement

See US Dept of Commerce (Bureau of Economic Analysis) latest consideration of measuring innovation and related intangibles in satellite national accounts, including measuring human capital, what is innovation, and deflator's to treating innovation/intangibles as investment.

Definition of innovation considered from ASTRA (Innovation Vital Signs project 2007 - online at http://www.usinnovation.org/files/Defining_Innovation807.pdf).

Report at http://www.bea.gov/scb/pdf/2009/01%20January/0109_inno… Continue

Posted by Richard Ferrers on 23 February 2009 at 5:58am

John Cummins

University Interaction Index

To begin, there are many indices that could be used to 'measure innovation'.

My particular area of interest concerns the interactions between universities and 'industry' (or more accurately, those organisations external to universities). My suggested index concerns the extent of these interactions.

The underlying hypothesis is that an innovative environment is characterised (among other things) by extensive interactions between universities and external organisations.

The index is: INCOME DER… Continue

Posted by John Cummins on 21 February 2009 at 10:26am

Richard Ferrers

2009 is the European year of Creativity and Innovation.

1.Link to 2007 EU innovation performance measurement document.

Available online at: http://www.proinno-europe.eu/admin/uploaded_documents/European_Innovation_Scoreboard_2007.pdf

2. European year of Creativity and Innovation home is: http://create2009.europa.eu

Goals include:

he European Year of Creativity and Innovation has the objective to rai… Continue

Posted by Richard Ferrers on 10 January 2009 at 3:56am — 1 Comment

Hannah Sutcliffe

AIM Conference: Social Science and Innovation Event

Social Science and Innovation Event

Royal Society of the Arts (RSA), London

On 11th February 2009 a major Social Science and Innovation Event is to be held at the Royal Society of the Arts (RSA) in London. Organised by Lead Innovation Fellow, Professor Michelle Lowe, the event is aimed at academics in management and the social sciences, as well as members of the policy and practice community.

Its objective is to generate dialogue between the large amount of research on innovation (broadly def… Continue

Posted by Hannah Sutcliffe on 22 December 2008 at 10:30am

Vadim Grinevich

Innovation metrics from McKinsey

McKinsey_Innovation_Metrics.pdf

You may find this article interesting:
The McKinsey survey reports that companies who "get the highest returns from innovation use
innovation metrics well" and "tend to assess innovation more comprehensively than the
others". The article also contains some examples of innovation metrics used.

Posted by Vadim Grinevich on 18 December 2008 at 7:08pm

Richard Ferrers

Innovation Measurement Links

Here are some recent Innovation Measurement web pages I have come across recently:

Boston Consulting Group (Aug. 2008)
Innovation 2008: Is the Tide Turning?
A survey of 3000 executives say they are less happy with their return on innovation (2008 43% happy, 2006 52% happy), and will spend less on innovation in 2008 (2008 63% spend more, 2006 72% spend more). 28 pages
http://www.bcg.com/impact_… Continue

Posted by Richard Ferrers on 11 November 2008 at 5:52am — 2 Comments

Richard Halkett

Thank you & update

Thank you to all those who posted or emailed responses to the Call for Ideas. We also received full reports from the eight Mini Projects that were launched over the Summer. The NESTA Index team are currently digesting these. We hope to post them online for wider discussion by Friday 19th September, 2008.

Posted by Richard Halkett on 16 September 2008 at 11:54am

Call for Ideas

Innovation Index library

Contains background documents on the Innovation Index Project and formal progress updates.

25 discussions

Discussion: What should the Innovation Index contain?

Contains the primary questions for consultation around the purpose, content and structure of the Innovation Index Project.

14 discussions

How to use this site

Some general guidance and advice on how to use this site.

4 discussions

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Innovation Index Admin added 3 discussionsJune 16
Ashish Lall added a blog postJune 9
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
Lepang Ferguson added a discussionJune 8
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