Measuring Innovation Everywhere: The Challenge of Better Policy, Learning, Evaluation and Monitoring

Gault, Fred

ISBN 10: 1789904552 / ISBN 13: 9781789904550

Published by Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Measuring Innovation Everywhere: The Challenge of Better Policy, Learning, Evaluation and Monitoring
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789904552
• ISBN 13: 9781789904550
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Looking beyond the business sector, Fred Gault examines the measurement of innovation in all economic sectors using an internationally agreed definition of innovation. This timely book explores the challenges and implications of measuring innovation, producing indicators to support policy development, monitoring, evaluation and learning.

Examining innovation as a systems phenomenon, chapters offer readers an understanding of the impact of the innovation policy of governments, the strategy of businesses and the practice of households in a more digital economy. Gault also looks at the growing importance of restricted innovation as well as the informal economy and the difficulties around measuring social innovation.

Concise and cutting-edge, this book will benefit economics and innovation scholars, particularly those looking into national innovation systems. Policy makers and organisations focused on the statistical measurement of innovation will also find this book offers helpful insights into the topic.

About the Author

Fred Gault, Professorial Fellow, UNU-MERIT, the Netherlands, Professor Extraordinaire and Member of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa, and Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa