Innovation has become a key factor for economic growth, but how does the process take place at the level of individual … firms? This book presents the main results of the OECD Innovation Microdata Project -- the first large-scale effort to … exploit firm-level data from innovation surveys across 20 countries in an internationally harmonised way, with a view to …

Small firms are playing an ever-increasing role in innovation, driven by changes in technologies and markets. Some spin … advantages. This book explores how government policy can boost innovation by improving the environment for entrepreneurship and … presented in three key areas: embedding firms in knowledge flows; developing entrepreneurship skills; and social …

. Skilled people play a crucial role in innovation through the new knowledge they generate, how they adopt and develop existing … between skill inputs and innovation outputs. Given the importance of meeting the demands of knowledge-based economic activity …"Innovation holds the key to ongoing improvements in living standards, as well as to solving pressing social challenges …