Various approaches to measuring business innovation: Their relevance for capturing social innovation

Arbeitspapier

This paper reviews various approaches to measuring business innovation from the angle of capturing social innovations and offers several methodological and policy conclusions. First, the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) indicators in principle could be useful in settings where the dominant mode of innovation is based on R&D activities. In practice, however, both R&D and non-R&D-based modes of innovation are fairly important. IUS, therefore, only provides a partial picture. Social innovations can certainly rely on R&D-based technological innovations. Their essence, however, tends to be organisational, managerial and behavioural changes. The IUS indicators do not capture these types of changes. Second, an assessment of the 81 indicators used to compile the Global Innovation Index reveals that it would neither be a fruitful effort to rely on those indicators to capture social innovations. Third, given the diversity among innovation systems, a poor performance signalled by a composite indicator does not automatically identify the area(s) necessitating the most urgent policy actions. Only tailored, thorough comparative analyses can do so. Fourth, analysts and policy-makers need to be aware of the differences between measuring (i) social innovation activities (efforts) themselves, (ii) the framework conditions (pre-requisites, available inputs, skills, norms, values, behavioural patterns, etc.) of being socially innovative, and (iii) the economic, societal or environmental impacts of social innovations.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-615-5594-22-9
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IEHAS Discussion Papers ; No. MT-DP - 2015/54

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Current Heterodox Approaches: Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary ; Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs: General ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Social Innovation ; Technological Change: Government Policy ; Data: Tables and Charts
• Thema: Evolutionary economics of innovation ; Business innovation ; Social innovation ; Measurement of innovation ; Composite indicators ; Scoreboards ; league tables ; Unit of analysis

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Havas, Attila
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics
• (wo): Budapest
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/144695
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ