Measuring Technological Innovation in Industry in European Union and Post-Socialist Countries

  • Giorgio Sirilli
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Abstract

Technological innovation is one of the main development factors in our society: thus the acquisition of tools to interpret and control it is a priority in scientific and technological policy. At the present time, many national policies for innovation remain more or less based on the idea that firms face only one problem in innovation, namely the scale and finance of R&D. But the extreme diversity of innovation processes at both industry and firm levels suggests that firms face a wide variety of problems. Innovation and technology policy should reflect this, with a more subtle and differentiated mix of objectives and instruments corresponding to the real characteristics of innovation processes. The starting point for this can only be a wider range of models of those processes.

Keywords

Technological Innovation Innovation Process Innovation Activity Innovation Policy European Patent Office 
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