The purpose of this paper is neither to give a new synthetic basis for the future development of the Oslo Manual, nor to provide a full review of all relevant issues. The purpose is limited to locating and raising some questions at the border of the Oslo Manual approach. Through this we hope to...

Rapporten gir en beskrivelse av det svenske innovasjonsrettede forskningsland-skapet basert på en spørreskjemaundersøkelse og supplerende informasjonsinn-henting som ble gjennomført i 2002 på oppdrag fra VINNOVA, KK-stiftelsen og Strategiska stiftelsen. Prosjektets siktemål var å gi en...

The paper argues for a need of rethinking the interaction between social science and socio-economic policy analysis on the one hand and policy making and implementation on the other. The interaction, traditionally conceived as a variant expert-client interaction should rather be conceived in...

The paper outlines a systemic based approach to policy learning – to the development of policy making capabilities and competences – and the role of social science and related policy analysis to the policy making process. The accompanying essay, Hauknes and Koch (R-18-2003), outlined some...

This paper studies the links between corporate governance and one of the major technological innovations of the modern era, mobile telephony. We focus on three countries of the Nordic area – Sweden, Norway and Finland – asking why this relatively small and indeed peripheral region has become...

Med dette notatet ønsker vi å bidra til en økt forståelse av tjenestesektorens økonomiske og teknologiske betydning i Norge. Denne sektoren har nå et omfang som i seg selv skaper behov for en slik forståelse. På den annen side peker de klare tegnene på et gjensidig økonomisk og...

There has been a considerable gap between efforts to understand innovation and other change processes, and ongoing structural changes in national economies. The SI4S project has aimed at developing concepts, empirical evidence and proposals for practical action concerning the role of services in...

This paper is an outline of some of the issues that are addressed in the TSER funded project, SI4S - Services in Innovation, Innovation in Services. In the paper we discuss the role of services, with a particular emphasis of knowledge intensive services, in innovation processes. We address both...

Concepts of innovation systems have attracted considerable interest over the last decade. These ideas have rapidly become the focus of policy discourse and formulation. The ultimate aim of innovation system approaches is that endogenising innovation performance may be achieved through...

Det foreliggende notatet er utarbeidet innenfor forprosjektet Statsbudsjettet som nasjonalt innovasjonssystem. Prosjektet var delfinansiert av Norges forskningsråd, prosjekt 93/02809. En foreløpig rapport, som stort sett er identisk med foreliggende rapport ble overlevert Norges forskningsråd...