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…
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Posted on February 26, 2009 at 9:26am —
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