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

Product Description 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. Review 'Fred Gault is a pioneer when it comes to measure innovation. This book gives a comprehensive view of recent international developments. A must read for any innovation scholar or policy maker.' --Dietmar Harhoff, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany'In this very important new book, innovation statistics expert Fred Gault develops the policy implications of the new definition of innovation contained in the current Oslo Manual. For the first time, governments can provide a view of the innovation process as a true multisectoral systems phenomenon that includes important contributions from the household sector.' --Eric von Hippel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, US About the Author Fred Gault, Professorial Fellow, UNU-MERIT, the Netherlands, Professor Extraordinary, Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) and Visiting Professor, DST/NRF/Newton Fund Trilateral Research Chair in Transformative Innovation, the 4th Industrial Revolution and Sustainable Development, University of Johannesburg, South Africa