Structural Business Statistics Expert Meeting

10-11 May 2007Vladimir López-Bassols

Economic Analysis and Statistics Division (EAS)Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (DSTI)

Using Micro Data for Economic Analysis: Innovation and Economic Performance

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Innovation surveys are business surveys, asking firms questions about: Innovation patterns (product, process, organisation, marketing), sources of knowledge (customers, universities, internal R&D…),collaboration and other linkages, obstacles to innovation, use of IPRs, innovation expenditures, etc.

=> See the OSLO MANUAL (2005)

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Innovation surveys - Background

First examples in 1980s-90s (manufacturing)

1st edition of Oslo Manual in 1992. 2nd edition in 1997, 3rd in 2005.

Surveys have been implemented in most OECD countries for more than 10 years (latest round in Europe: CIS-4)

Innovation surveys are a unique source of statistical information on innovation

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Innovation surveys and other measurement instruments

R&D surveys, data on HRST, patents, high-tech trade

Innovation surveys focus on “subject approach”, business enterprise sector, go beyond R&D (services)

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The project Objective: Conduct statistical analysis of innovation at the firm level (“microdata”) at an international scale => comparability, statistical robustness

Raison d’être: Access to microdata is restricted (confidentiality rules) => no international comparisons are possible in the current framework.

Modus operandi: National teams from 17 OECD and 2 non-member countries are working within a common framework so as to obtain comparable results, although without pooling the data. Follow 2-tier approach depending on data availability (e.g. links with other datasets)

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Contents of the project

Studies will make use of innovation surveys microdata and address the following 4 topics:

1. Innovation, productivity and employment

What benefits do firms (and society) obtain from innovation?

Which economic conditions favour/hamper innovation?

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2. Globalisation: Patterns of international co-operation and technology transfers at the firm level, their impact on innovation

3. Non technological innovation (organisation, marketing): Its determinants, its articulation with technological innovation

4. IPR (patents, etc.): Their incentive effect

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Implementation of the project

Project launched in 2006: joint project of NESTI (statistical WP of CSTP) and WPIA (statistical WP of CIIE, ex-SWIC)

Meetings: Paris Nov. 2006; Vienna March 2007; Paris June 2007

Final conference to be held in November 2007

Outputs: national reports, conference proceedings, technical papers

References: DSTI/EAS/STP/NESTI(2006)10

DSTI/EAS/IND/SWP(2007)5

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Ongoing/future workSpecifying econometric models for the 4 topics (reduced / extended) and preparing STATA do files

Harmonising variable names and data adjustments

Sampling frames; units of analysis

Sector covered

Mandatory/voluntary

Questions asked

Phrasing and ordering of questions

Presence of filter questions

Developing indicators (simple and composite)

Data linkages (production, financial, patent, trade data)