Symposium on "Measurement of Innovation"

to be held during the 4th Intl. Conf. on Tech. Policy and Innovation, Curitiba, 28-31 August, 2000

Coordinated by: P. Conceição, R. Quadros, P. Egler, G. Sirilli

Sponsors:

• Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology
• Science and Technology Policy Department, DPCT/UNICAMP

This symposium consists of three workshops to be held in consecutive days forming a track throughout the conference dealing with issues associated with the measurement of innovation. While there is long tradition on producing and using statistics and indicators for R&D, the effort to deal with the measurement of technological innovation is more recent. A parallel conceptual framework to the Frascati Manual - which provides guidelines together and interpret data on R&D - for innovation is the Oslo Manual, which has been developed under the auspices of the OECD and EUROSTAT. Drawing heavily from the Oslo Manual, the OECD jointly with Eurostat has been stimulating the Community Innovation Surveys, an effort that several European countries have undergone, aiming at gathering comparable data on technological innovation. Many other non-european countries have started their innovation surveys as well. The first workshop assesses the CIS efforts undergone thus far, aiming at providing a critical evaluation of the methodologies and results, and suggesting ideas for further improvements. Beyond Europe, other countries have used and contributed to the CIS effort. The second and the third workshops describe the results of innovation surveys of other countries outside Europe and in Latin America.

Day 1- Session 2: Assessing the Community Innovation Survey Effort

Speakers:

• Daniele Archibugi and Giorgio Sirilli, ISRDS-CNR, IT
• Pedro Conceição, Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, IST, PT
• Dominic Guellec, OECD
• Georg Licht, Centre for European Economic Research-ZEW, DE

Day 2- Session 14: Innovation Measurement Beyond CIS

Speakers:

• D. Hamdani, Science, Innovation, Technology and Jobs, Statistics Canada, CA
• A. Inzelt, Budapest University of Economic Science, HU
• A. Arundel, F. Corvers and M. Hocke, MERIT, NL
• E. M. Pinto da Rocha and M. A. F. Tavares, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, BR

Day 3- Session 25: Measurement of Industrial Innovation in Latin America

Speakers:

• Ruy Quadros, UNICAMP, Campinas, BR
• Antonio Furtado
• Tales Andreassi and Roberto Sbragia, Universidade de São Paulo, BR
• G. Lugones, ARG
• José Carrilho, MX
• J. Jaramillo, Colombia

Local coordination of fund raising:

• Ruy Quadros, UNICAMP - Campinas
• Roberto Sbragia, USP - São Paulo

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