Handbook of Innovation Indicators and Measurement

This volume, based on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)/ Eurostat's Oslo Manual, gives material on indicators and statistical measurements related to innovation, defining it and implementing the definition, measurement, developing and using indicators, strategy, planning for the future, and challenges. The articles begin with an overview, the Oslo Manual and the history of the Community Innovation Survey. They then turn to business and consumer innovation; panel surveys in Germany, Norway and Japan; the OECD agenda for innovations organizing; dynamics; scoreboards and their reports; the Finnish and the US approaches to OECD; emerging and enabling technologies; foresight and science in indicators; measuring innovation in the public sector; and indicators for social innovation. The volume closes with an essay on future challenges by editor Gault, a Professor Extraordinaire in the Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. Annotation c2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Edited by Fred Gault, Professorial Fellow, UNU-MERIT, the Netherlands and Professor Extraordinaire and Member, TUT Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI), Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), South Africa