Innovation Strategies for a Global Economy

Development, Implementation, Measurement and Management

Fred Gault

Professorial Fellow, UNU MERIT, The Netherlands and Professor Extraordinaire and Member of the TUT Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI), Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), South Africa

© International Development Research Centre 2010

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Contents

List of tables and boxes vi

Preface vii

Acknowledgements xii

List of abbreviations xvi

PART I ISSUES AND FRAMEWORKS

1 A challenging world 3

2 A systems approach 20

PART II DEFINITIONS AND MEASUREMENT

3 Talking about innovation 35

4 What can be measured? 47

5 How are indicators used? 69

PART III INNOVATION STRATEGIES

6 Innovation strategies, advice and direction 87

7 Innovation strategy components 104

8 Innovation strategy coordination 116

PART IV EXTENDING THE COMMUNITY AND THE SUBJECT

9 Innovation and development 133

10 New directions 147

11 The roles of the players 165

Appendix A: Sources of information 172

Appendix B: Examples of research projects 175

References 181

Index 201