Brainstorming on measuring innovation on education

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The Innovation Index Project

• Brainstorming on measuring innovation on
  education
• OECD, 11 June 2009

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Why a new Innovation Index for the UK?
? DIUS White Paper A new innovation index is
needed
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Aims Timetable
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Private Sector Index Update

• Innovation growth accounting (18 months)
• Imperial College and ONS (Jonathan Haskel and
  Tony Clayton)
• Firm-level innovation performance (7 months)
• University of Warwick (Stephen Roper, Jim Love
  and John Bryson)
• Wider/Framework Conditions (7 months)
• GHK, Technopolis and Manchester University
  (Manchester Institute of Innovation Research)
• Measuring user-led innovation (7 months)
• CENTRIM, MIT and EIM (Steve Flowers, Eric von
  Hippel and Jeroen de Jong)

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1. Innovation growth accounting

• Main indicators
• Investment in innovation, going beyond RD
• Contribution of investment in innovation to
  labour productivity growth, distinguishing
  between different types of investment
• Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth,
  accounting for the role of intangibles.
• Process
• Focus on software, RD, design spending,
  financial services, marketing, human capital and
  organisational capital
• Exploit labour force survey data to build
  measures of investment
• Run extended RD survey and conduct industry fora
• Test assumptions underlying metrics and growth
  accounting

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2. Firm-level innovation performance

• Main indicators
• Sector-specific indicators of innovation activity
• Innovation capabilities map (per sector and
  innovation process stage)
• 6 areas of the UK economy in 2009 (10 sectors)
• legal services, consultancy services,
  accountancy services (as part of knowledge
  intensive business services) software and IT
  services architecture and design (as part of
  creative services) aerospace, automotive (as
  part of high-value manufacturing) construction
  and energy production.
• Process
• Implement a peer review process with industry
  practitioners to validate indicator choice
  (sector-specific)
• Run firm survey to collect data on the selected
  indicators

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3.Wider/Framework Conditions

• Main indicators
• Indicators for the most important drivers of
  innovation activity outside the firm/organization
• It may include, among others, skills,
  entrepreneurship and growth, finance, demand,
  intellectual property rights, collaboration and
  competition
• Process
• Develop selection criteria to choose among
  potential frameworks and different indicators
• Compile data based on existing sources on the
  selected indicators at a national and regional
  level
• Consider the distinctive role that specific
  conditions have for some industries

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4. Measuring user-led innovation

• Main indicators
• Indicators for user innovation by firms and
  individual end consumers
• Process
• Undertake a firm level survey to measure user
  innovation in UK firms
• Undertake two surveys on end consumers to measure
  the involvement of UK end-consumers in the
  innovation process

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5. The Public Sector/Services Work so far

• Commissioning two scoping projects on public
  sector innovation LSE, Technopolis
• Engaging with and advising on other initiatives
  in the UK and internationally including
• National Audit Office study
• NHS Innovation metrics project
• OECD revision of Oslo Manual
• UKIPO measurement of intangible assets
• Nordic Initiative
• Organising OECD-DIUS-Nordic-NESTA conference to
  share thinking and developing international
  co-operation

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Determining parameters some choices
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Health innovation metrics DH/NHS approach
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Whats relevant to measure? Characteristics of
an innovative public sector

• Culture of continuous improvement that
  incentivises public bodies, their staff and
  stakeholders to innovate
• Openness to innovative ideas and able to source
  innovations from outside and within
• Making decisions and allocating funding quickly
  to develop, trial and test innovations
• Identifying what works and comparing with
  existing delivery methods
• Allocating funding to scale and rolling out
  successful innovations with support for adopters
• Closing down unsuccessful innovation projects

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Within the Index conceptual framework generic
indicators for the public sector
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Proposed public sector outputs

• A set of input, output, adoption and outcome
  indicators that measure some or all dimensions of
  public sector innovation processes
• A methodology piloted by NESTA for capturing
  public sector innovation data that can be later
  adopted by others
• Depending on progress on the private sector
  components of the Index, additional outputs such
  as work on framework conditions and public
  sector productivity

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Next steps Phase 1 2009-10
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Next steps Phase 2 2010 -11
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