New Concepts in Innovation Output Measurement

This collection of papers describes advances in the measurement of innovation output, principally through the use of a new technique based on scanning of trade and technical journals. Experience in several countries is assessed and the strength and weakne

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New Concepts in Innovation Output Measurement Edited by

Alfred Kleinknecht Senior Economist SEO, Foundation for Economic Research Uni1•ersity of Amsterdam

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Donald Bain Principal Scientist EC Institute for Prospecti1·e Technological Studies lspra. Italy

© Alfred Kleinknecht and Donald Bain 1993

Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1993

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ISBN 978-1-349-22894-2 ISBN 978-1-349-22892-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-22892-8 10 9 06 05

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First published in the United States of America 1993 by Scholarly and Reference Division, ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010

ISBN 978-0-312-09974-9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data New concepts in innovation output measurement/ edited by Alfred Kleinknecht and Donald Bain. p. em. Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-312-09974-9

I. Technological innovations-Economic aspects. 2. hiput-output analysis. I. Kleinknecht, Alfred, 1951II. Bain, Donald. HC79.T4N468 1993 658.5'14----dc20 93-18905 CIP

Contents Foreword by Donald Bain

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Notes on the Contributors

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Why Do We Need New Innovation Output Indicators? An Introduction Alfred Kleinknecht 2 Analysing Innovation Output Indicators: The US Experience Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch

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3 Collecting Literature-based Innovation Output Indicators: The Experience in the Netherlands Alfred Kleinknecht, Jeroen 0. N. Reijnen and Wendy Smits

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4 The Austrian Experience with Literature-based Innovation Output Indicators Peter Fleissner, Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Margit Pohl

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5 The Irish Experience with Literature-based Innovation Output Indicators D. J. Cogan

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6 Extracting Significant Innovations from Published Sources in Great Britain Fred Steward

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7 Testing Innovation Indicators for Postal Surveys: Results from a Five-country Project A/fred Kleinknecht

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8 Discussion and Conclusions Alfred Kleinknecht

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