EAGER: Collaborative Research: How Innovative are Innovations?: Refining survey-based measures of innovation

对创新进行概念化和衡量出人意料地困难。国际创新界一直在通过开发基于经合组织-S奥斯陆手册的国家调查来衡量创新，这些调查依赖于简单的分类区分。这个项目超越了明确的区分，按照经济、技术和独特性的维度描述了公司在给定市场上最畅销的创新。这些创新措施通过与其他现有公共和私人数据的比较以及对公司、行业和地区特征的检查而得到验证。该项目的结果为其他创新调查提供指导，以促进我们对创新驱动力的理解。将创新作为一个多维概念来对待，为分析师提供工具来衡量给定创新的重要性。这一分析使研究人员和政策制定者能够评估所讨论的创新在某种意义上是否重要，这将对对创新感兴趣的各个社区有意义。该项目利用了私营创新调查机构美国竞争力调查的数据，并将其与NSF商业研发和创新调查、欧洲共同体创新调查以及另一家私营研发调查机构卡内基梅隆调查的数据结合在一起。

Conceptualizing and measuring innovation is surprisingly difficult. The international innovation community has been measuring innovation by developing national surveys based on the OECD?s Oslo manual that rely on the simple categorical distinction. This project goes beyond the categorical distinction by characterizing firms' top-selling innovations in a given market along the dimensions of economic, technical and uniqueness. These measures of innovation are validated by comparisons with other existing public and private data and by examining the firm, industry, and regional characteristics. Results from the project provide guidance for other innovation surveys to advance our understanding of the drivers of innovation.Approaching innovation as a multidimensional concept provides analysts the tools to calibrate the importance of a given innovation. The analysis allows researchers and policymakers to assess whether the innovations in question are important in a sense that will be meaningful for the various communities interested in innovation. This project exploits data from the American Competitiveness Survey, a private innovation survey, and combines it with data from the NSF Business R&D and Innovation Survey, the European Community Innovation Survey, and the Carnegie Mellon Survey, another private R&D survey.