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Measuring Design and its Role in Innovation

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  • Fernando Galindo-Rueda

    (OECD)

  • Valentine Millot

    (OECD)

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This working paper sums up the main findings of an OECD project aiming to provide an evidence basis for focusing efforts to improve the measurement of technological and non-technological forms of business innovation, with particular focus on the role of design. It reviews a broad range of novel design-related measures, indicating their advantages and limitations in terms of policy relevance and insights. The analysis of design provides a valuable test-case for assessing the robustness of the overall framework for measuring innovation as proposed in the OECD/Eurostat Oslo Manual. It identifies a number of areas for potential development in a future revision, focused on the role of users and the implementation of the definition of innovation and innovation activities. It also identifies a range of design concepts based on an informal consultation with the design expert community. The paper also illustrates a number of findings arising from the first-time use of a set of experimental and optional questions on design implementing a “ladder-type” model of design which describes levels of sophistication and integration of the design function within the firm. Cognitive testing and analysis of the microdata from a large and representative sample of Danish firms shows a high degree of respondent acceptance of the experimental questions and supports their predictive validity vis-à-vis a number of hypotheses on the use of design and a series of innovation and economic outcomes potentially associated to it.

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  • Fernando Galindo-Rueda & Valentine Millot, 2015. "Measuring Design and its Role in Innovation," OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers 2015/1, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:stiaaa:2015/1-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5js7p6lj6zq6-en
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    1. Sandro Montresor & Antonio Vezzani, 2017. "Design, innovation and performance in European firms," JRC Working Papers on Corporate R&D and Innovation 2017-01, Joint Research Centre.
    2. Andersson, David E. & Ekman, Anton & Huila, Anton & Tell, Fredrik, 2023. "Industrial design rights and the market value of firms," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 196(C).
    3. Bjerke, Lina & Johansson, Sara, 2022. "Innovation in agriculture: An analysis of Swedish agricultural and non-agricultural firms," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 109(C).
    4. Heikkilä, Jussi & Peltoniemi, Mirva, 2019. "Great expectations: Learning the boundaries of design rights," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(9), pages 1-1.
    5. Timothy R Wojan & Bonnie Nichols, 2018. "Design, innovation, and rural creative places: Are the arts the cherry on top, or the secret sauce?," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(2), pages 1-23, February.
    6. Stuart A. Rosenfeld, 2018. "Manufacturing by Design," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 32(4), pages 313-325, November.
    7. Timothy R Wojan & Timothy F Slaper, 2020. "Are the problem spaces of economic actors increasingly virtual? What geo-located web activity might tell us about economic dynamism," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(9), pages 1-22, September.

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    design; innovation; measurement; surveys; technology;
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