Skip to page content, site navigation or site search.

Working Papers
Print this article Print this article

 

  1. Hall, B;

    The paper reviews the literature about patents on business methods and financial methods and their expected impact on innovation. It concludes that there is some consensus about the problems associated with these kinds of patents, identifies areas of disagreement and reviews the various policy recommendations.


    Business and financial method patents, innovation and policy. UNU−MERIT Working Paper 2010-010, NBER Working Paper No. 14868; April 2009.
  2. Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills (2008). Open by design: the role of design in open innovation.
  3. There were two objectives in the study: (1) to capture a better understanding of what we mean by ‘open’ styles of innovation and how these can be defined, and (2) to test whether firms need design capabilities and a suitable sectoral fit to be open. The hypotheses are tested through a large scale cross-sectional data set of 16 445 firms from the UK Innovation Survey Database.
  4.  
  5.  
  6. Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills (2008). Innovation modes and productivity in the UK.
  7. This paper is motivated by the aim to develop appropriate indicators capturing modes of innovation by UK enterprises, examine how such innovation practices vary across regions and industries and explore the extent to which they have an impact on productivity. There is an emphasis on identifying and examining the relevance of non-technological innovation that builds on and extends previous research in this important area.
  8.  
  9.  
  10. Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (2007). Innovation in Services.
  11. This paper brings together emerging evidence and thinking on services innovation in the UK. Innovation is one of the five drivers of productivity growth alongside skills, investment, enterprise and competition. The findings of the study will contribute to help ensure the DTI and the Government has a robust evidence base to inform innovation policy, in line with the DTI’s remit to “create the conditions to for business success and help the UK respond to the challenge of globalization”.
  12.  
  13.  
  14. Mattson J. (2009). Exploring user-involvement in technology-based service innovation. ICE-Project working paper. 2009:02.
  15. Customers are more and more asked to provide services for themselves using internet based technology. This technology comprises software that is becoming increasingly easy to customize by software development. Hence it becomes important to find out how users derive value from different software/service applications.

 

  1. Science Progress (12.1.2009):  Benchmarking Foreign Innovation, The United States Needs to Learn from Other Industrialized Democracies.
    While many nations have taken the innovation challenge to heart and put in place a host of policies to spur innovation, the United States has done little, consequently falling behind in innovation policies and risking falling behind in innovation performance as well.


  2. Kuusisto A. & Kuusisto J. (2007): Use of knowledge intensive business services by SMEs – some policy implications. RESER (European Network for Research on Services) conference, Tampere, Finland, 13.-15.9.2007.
    The study examines the use of knowledge intensive business services by SMEs in a regional context in Finland. The results show that for the SMEs, “learning by doing” is a primary way of learning how to make effective use of knowledge intensive services.


  3. E.K.Vuori. (2005) "Knowledge-intensive service organizations as agents in a business ecosystem," icsssm, pp. 908-912 Vol. 2, Proceedings of ICSSSM '05. 2005 International Conference on Services Systems and Services Management, 2005. Vol. 2, 2005
    The paper discusses a new approach to modeling organization populations containing knowledge-intensive service organizations. The paper presents the concept of business ecosystem, and the agent-based modeling of it, as a possibility to understand the complex environment where knowledge-intensive service (KIS) organizations operate.


  4. CRIC (Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition)
    1. CRIC Briefing No. 2, Innovation in Services. 2006.
      Much has been written about how the innovation process works in manufacturing, but services have received much less attention. Services cannot be regarded as mere passive consumers of technology - in fact their methods of innovation are becoming increasingly relevant.  
    2. CRIC Discussion Paper No. 66, Bruce Tether:  Do Services Innovate (Differently)? November 2004
      Services do not generally produce technologically advanced artefacts, they are often considered to be non-innovative, or ‘supplier dominated’ recipients of technologies rather than ‘true innovators’. It can also be stated that services tend to innovate differently from manufacturers, or at least that innovation in services brings to the fore ‘softer’ aspects of innovation based in skills and inter-organisational co-operation practices which are pervasive across the economy, but which do not tend to be prominent amongst manufacturers, and are therefore neglected.
    3. CRIC Discussion Paper No. 62, Jeremy Howells:  Innovation, Consumption and Knowledge: Services and Encapsulation. August 2003
      The study seeks to provide a comprehensive review of current literature on the subject of consumption and innovation. From there on the focus shifts to more specific considerations on how the consumption process helps to articulate and frame the dynamics of innovation.
       

 

Link to this article