The report gives a detailed statistical exposition of flows of personnel between the research-producing sector and other sectors of the economy for the period 1988-1998 in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Complete annual matched employee/employer datasets for the four countries make up the...

Although much ICT-related innovation activities take place in non-ICT industries, it has hitherto been difficult to measure the extent of such activities in a quantitative and comparative way. Most ICT -overviews have used traditional producer-focused classifications (like net employment in...

This paper outlines a conceptual framework and some empirical objectives for analytical work on research and innovation policy. It sketches some major changes which have occurred in our understanding of the links between science, innovation and technological change over the past twenty years,...

I denne rapporten presenteres resultatene fra en av flere moduler i et omfattende forskningsprosjekt med tittel ”Lønnsomhet og vekst som følge av FoU og innovasjon”. Prosjektet er finansiert av Norges forskningsråd under programmet ”Næring, finans og marked”.Innovasjon lønner seg i...

Denne rapporten gjør en studie av en generisk teknologi, og sier noe om sannsynlig produkt -og tjenesteutvikling. Med utgangspunkt i noen av de faktorene som bestemmer teknologiutviklingen og dermed den langsiktige økonomiske vekst, har analysen som mål å kunne si noe om utfordringene for...

Denne rapporten kartlegger norske vekstnæringer på nittitallet ved bruk av sysselsettingsstatistikk. Studien er unik, fordi en samlet presentasjon av sysselsettingsutvikling i ulike sektorer og næringer på et så detaljert nivå ikke er laget før. Studien dekker perioden 1988-1999. På...

This paper presents the economic rationales of government intervention into innovation activities and into the supply of innovation-related services as inputs in innovation processes. There are two approaches to the question of the economic rationale of government involvement in technological...

The present volume contains statistical tables that supplement the main report with the same title. The material is organised according to the same structure as in the main report (STEP Report 23-2003). Comments to the contents of the tables and any methodological and other specifications can be...

The aim of this paper is to show that the dynamics of Schumpeterian economics, in addition to explain the creation of wealth, also implicitly contain the elements of a theory of relative poverty. It is argued that the German tradition of economics, of which Schumpeter is a part, has always...

Norway is in many ways integrated with the European markets, but this is not the case considering statistics developed by EUROSTAT on regional level and the development of the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS). This paper is making an attempt to develop an Innovation Scoreboard for the...