innovation that is intended to contribute to the review and implementation of the OECD measurement frameworks for R&D and … innovation. The report highlights what concepts, definitions and measurement approaches can be used, with currently available … data or suitably adapted sources, to produce policy-relevant indicators on the use of innovation procurement and carry out …

Innovation in the European Union remains weak according to a number of key "input" indicators, especially R …'s innovation gap relative to the US results from an inappropriate industrial structure in which new firms do not play a significant … role, especially in new high-tech sectors. This view of a structural EU innovation deficit has many supporters. But it has …

innovation activities during periods of recession. We empirically analyse what general patterns can be distinguished in this …: some companies have recently reduced their innovation activities significantly, while others maintained them and a third … deceleration of R&D and innovation activities induced by the crisis, but the trend figures remain positive. Driven by the companies …