Linda Hesselman (UCL)

What happened to innovation in the UK? Comparing the UK Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2 and 3.

This paper will analyse the results of the two U.K. Community Innovation Surveys (CISs) with a view to developing policy recommendations. In Hesselman (2002) some of the results for the second CIS were analysed. This paper will analyse the CIS3 survey results in a similar way. It will analyse the surveys as separate cross-sections. It will also consider some results with the two surveys pooled into a panel. By combining enterprises’ innovative activity at two points in time and over time, it the paper will provide evidence-based policy recommendations.

Keywords: innovation, public policy to support innovative activity, sources of information and knowledge

JEL Codes: O31, O32, O33

Session: 6b   Room 2001   Category: Innovation 2

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