The Italian innovation survey shows that a large majority of the 7,553 innovating firms declared that the existing technology policies have had no relevance for the introduction of innovations. Most public policies and funds are targeted to the largest firms in the high-technology sectors. The...

Various countries have been collecting R&D data for more than 30 years on the basis of the OECD ‘Frascati Manual’ which sets forth a harmonised methodology for collecting, compiling and analysing the data. At this stage we need to come back again to some basic issues for two reasons: first,...