Collecting Literature-based Innovation Output Indicators. The Experience in the Netherlands

Identification of innovating firms through technological innovation indicators: an application to the Spanish ceramic tile industry

“…In order to meet the requirement for journal availability, we attempted to cover the largest number of centers related to the professional sectors to which the innovations were directed, which enabled us to identify a total of nine suitable journals. 5 Following the guidelines set out by Kleinknecht et al (1993) and adopted in the work of Coombs et al (1996), and Santarelli and Piergiovanni (1996) on the method of gathering information, a database was designed in which information relating to the publication was compiled, together with the company name, the product name, and the type and characteristics of the product arising from the innovation. 6 Additionally, we also classified the innovations identified according to their degree of complexity and type of innovation.…”

“…Furthermore, press releases used must provide detailed information about the innovation, the name of the company responsible must be indicated, the journals used must be continuously available over the whole period under analysis, and they must be edited by professional bodies directly related to the sector Santarelli and Piergiovanni, 1996). Literature-based innovation output indicators were first used in the US by Edwards and Gordon (1984), although later developments have been carried out in Europe, by Kleinknecht et al (1993) in The Netherlands, by Cogan (1993) in Ireland, by Fleissner et al (1993) in Austria, by Santarelli and Piergiovanni (1996) in Italy and in the UK by Coombs et al (1996) and Tidd et al (1996), with satisfactory results.…”

“…This is the case in Kleinknecht et al (1993) and in Santarelli and Piergiovanni (1996), where the innovations are classified in two dimensions, the degree of complexity and the type of innovation depicted. In these studies, the degree of complexity shows whether the innovation is made up of various parts or components, which, in turn, are founded on various knowledge bases or disciplines; and the type of innovation reveals the character of the innovation within its own sector; for instance, whether it is a totally new product for the industry, a slightly improved product or a new accessory for an already existing product.…”

On the Marshall-Jacobs controversy: it takes two to tango

“…The data have been collected using the Literature-based Innovation Output (LBIO) method. The LBIO method has been used by several authors like Edwards and Gordon (1984), Acs and Audretsch (1988) for the USA, Kleinknecht et al (1993) for the Netherlands, Cogan (1993) for Ireland, Coombs et al (1996) for the United Kingdom and Santarelli, Piergiovanni (1996) for Italy and Flor and Oltra (2004) for Spain. The method has several advantages.…”

Issues in measuring innovation

“…These have been analyzed by Acs & Audretsch in a series of articles (for a survey see ACS & AUDRETSCH, 1993). In Europe similar databases have been compiled in the Netherlands (KLEINKNECHT et al, 1993), in Ireland (COGAN, 1993, Austria (FLEISSNER et al, 1993), the United Kingdom (COOMBS et al, 1996), Italy (SANTARELLI & PIERGIOVANNI, 1996), Spain (FLOR & OLTRA, 2004) and Finland (SAARINEN, 2005).…”