Monday, January 12, 2004
Innovation in the Service sector
This is the detailed analysis of CIS2 service sector innovation data by Bruce Tether et al. The most extensive account yet available of this wideranging and pan-EU innovation survey.
This is the detailed analysis of CIS2 service sector innovation data by Bruce Tether et al. The most extensive account yet available of this wideranging and pan-EU innovation survey.
Friday, January 09, 2004
Centre for Innovation in Primary Care lots of information from a sadly-defunct project trying to document and practice health-related innovations of many kinds.
THE NEW NEW FINANCIAL THING:THE SOURCES OF INNOVATION BEFORE AND AFTER STATE STREET by Josh Lerner, NBER Working Paper 10223
This is a highly original study of financial innovation, including patenting as a measure and an influence on the process, and using news articles as an innnovation indicator too. Here's the abstract, doesn't fully hint at the richness:
"This paper examines the sources of financial innovations between 1990 and 2002, using Wall Street
Journal articles as indicators of innovations. No evidence suggests that larger firms are particularly
innovative; in many specifications, there is a disproportionate representation of smaller firms among
the innovators. Less profitable firms and those with stronger academic ties also innovate more. The
elasticity of innovation with respect to size appears to have increased sharply since the State Street
decision that greatly accelerated the rate of financial patenting. I conclude by exploring how the
origins of financial patents resemble or differ from those of innovations."
Author Josh Lerner is at Harvard Business School
Rock Center, Room 214, Boston, MA 02163
This is a highly original study of financial innovation, including patenting as a measure and an influence on the process, and using news articles as an innnovation indicator too. Here's the abstract, doesn't fully hint at the richness:
"This paper examines the sources of financial innovations between 1990 and 2002, using Wall Street
Journal articles as indicators of innovations. No evidence suggests that larger firms are particularly
innovative; in many specifications, there is a disproportionate representation of smaller firms among
the innovators. Less profitable firms and those with stronger academic ties also innovate more. The
elasticity of innovation with respect to size appears to have increased sharply since the State Street
decision that greatly accelerated the rate of financial patenting. I conclude by exploring how the
origins of financial patents resemble or differ from those of innovations."
Author Josh Lerner is at Harvard Business School
Rock Center, Room 214, Boston, MA 02163
Thursday, January 08, 2004
This is the December 2003 report we all probably missed due to Xmas! The COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL,
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
The competitiveness of business-related services
and their contribution to the performance of European enterprises Available Here in Word format (a Pdf is also online)
Contains lots of data and lots of pleas for better data. Watch out for the ECORYS/CRIC study that is soon to be published from this EC source, and whose results have been used in part here.
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
The competitiveness of business-related services
and their contribution to the performance of European enterprises Available Here in Word format (a Pdf is also online)
Contains lots of data and lots of pleas for better data. Watch out for the ECORYS/CRIC study that is soon to be published from this EC source, and whose results have been used in part here.
