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| Firm Level Innovation and the CIS - Is there a Common Story across EU Countries? |
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24th of October of 2005
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BACKGROUND 
This seminar is a collaborative effort to bring together senior and junior researchers as well as PhD and Master students in order to foster discussion concerning CIS data and analysis relating to innovation in European firms.
OBJECTIVES
Since innovation was set as one of the main priorities of the European Union and that the CIS IV is now under way, it is important to make a reflection about the role of the CIS as a measuring instrument to assist the definition of present and future innovation policies. In this framework, the main objective of this seminar is to promote the discussion about innovation and CIS. This discussion will be focused on the problems faced by experts from different European countries while conducting and analyzing CIS as well as a starting point to debate possible solutions for these problems. This seminar intends to be a contribution for the future development of CIS and its compatibility with other innovation surveys.
QUESTIONS AND ISSUES UNDER DISCUSSION
In this context, it is important to join experts from different countries in order to encourage the exchange of experiences and try to answer some important questions that are raised around the CIS process:
- Does the CIS permits a fair comparison of innovation performances between the UE countries, the sectors surveyed and over time?
- What could be learned on the innovation process and does the CIS evaluate correctly the innovation process?
- Why are the response rates so different across countries and may these have an impact on the countries results?
- How to improve the usefulness of the data for the innovation analysis and the innovation policies (i.e. innovation analysis and especially innovation policies are not mainly based at the firm level).
- What efforts are necessary to be undertaken to make CIS comparable with other innovation surveys, namely the ones from Canada, Australia and Japan?
- What type of indicators should always be regarded as “essential” in order to allow for longitudinal analysis? What other indicators should be inserted into CIS?
- Should CIS surveys focus more deeply on knowledge transfer activities and co-operations, namely, those ones that took place with universities and R&D institutes or government agencies, users and suppliers, but also individual entrepreneurs and finance?
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Baptista, Rui, Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research (IN+/IST)
Faria, Pedro, Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research (IN+/IST)
Horta, Hugo, Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research (IN+/IST)
Dautel, Vincent, CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg
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