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Measuring Public Innovation: Toward a common statistical approach

Nordic project on the development of Public Innovation Metrics Carter Bloch, Senior Researcher, DAMVAD International Conference on Public Sector Innovation Measurement London, 9-10 March. Measuring Public Innovation: Toward a common statistical approach. Outline.

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Measuring Public Innovation: Toward a common statistical approach

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  1. Nordic project on the development of Public Innovation Metrics Carter Bloch, Senior Researcher, DAMVAD International Conference on Public Sector Innovation Measurement London, 9-10 March Measuring Public Innovation: Toward a common statistical approach København – Århus www.damvad.dk

  2. Outline • Motivation for the project • Main objectives • Project organisation and time plan • Key questions/areas/elements

  3. Background for project – funding support • Project initiated by: Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation • Other Nordic contributors: • Research Council of Norway • Innovation Norway • VINNOVA • SALAR (Swedish Assoc. of municipalities and regions) • Finnish Ministry of Enterprise and Employment

  4. Participants • Denmark: • DAMVAD (Carter Bloch, Torben Vad, Lydia Jørgensen) • CFA (Peter S. Mortensen, Ebbe Graversen) • Statistics Denmark (Helle Månsson) • Norway: • NIFU-STEP (Johan Hauknes, Stig Slipersæter) • Statistics Norway (Frank Foyn, Lars Wilhelmsen) • Finland: Statistics Finland (Mikael Åkerblom) • Sweden: Statistics Sweden (Roger Björkbacka, Per Annerstedt) • Iceland: RANNIS (Thorvald Finnbjørnsson) • Collaboration with UK (NESTA; DIUS), OECD group • Hope to collaborate with other countries

  5. Background for project • National interest in Public sector innovation in Nordic (and other) countries • Demographic changes necessitate innovation • Competition with private service providers • Better quality services to citizens • However lack of systematic data on public sector innovation. • Hinders efforts to better understand and to promote public sector innovation

  6. Main objectives • Develop draft guidelines and questionnaire for collecting internationally comparable data on innovation in the public sector • Guidelines should meet Nordic and international needs • Contribute towards (OECD/Eurostat) guidelines • Produce preliminary metrics based on pilot study data • Collaboration/dialogue with other countries, OECD, EU

  7. Key issues to address Conceptualising public sector innovation • What is innovation in the public sector? How does PI differ from innovation in the business sector? Identifying user needs • What types of information is needed/useful? What are the main types of users and potential uses of public innovation metrics?

  8. Key issues to address What is feasible? • How do potential respondents conceptualise innovation? Feasibility: what data can be collected? Measurement issues • What do we mean by the public sector? Which sectors/activities? • Differences across sectors? Statistical units?

  9. Public innovation metrics. Some examples and issues. Innovations – types and definitions • Oslo Manual: Product, Process, Organisational and Marketing innovations • Product (service) innovations – Collective/Public services? “Services” that aim to inform or change public behavior? • How might process and organisational innovations be distinguished? • Other types of innovations? Policy innovations?

  10. Public innovation metrics. Some examples and issues. Investments in innovation and innovative capacity • Oslo Manual – Innovation Activities are only those directly related to Product-Process innovations • Does this make sense for public sector? • What is most feasible for quantitative measures? • Or broader scope? (for example, covering all types of innovations; all activities to build up competences and innovative)

  11. Public innovation metrics. Some examples and issues. Organising innovation: learning and knowledge exchange • Oslo Manual – Linkages: cooperation and information sources • More information needed on what activities public organizations undertake to learn from others? • Explicit focus on innovation (strategy, evaluation, teams/groups, staff resources,etc.) • User involvement? • Procurement practices? • Learning activities?

  12. Public innovation metrics. Some examples and issues. Drivers and Barriers of public sector innovation • What are the main sources of innovative ideas within organizations, or key external factors that influence innovation? • Factors such as risk aversion, bureaucratic culture, lack of time and resources, and rules are regulations are often cited as obstacles to public sector innovation. How important are these and other barriers for public sector organizations?

  13. Public innovation metrics. Some examples and issues. Objectives and outcomes of innovation activities • The impacts of public sector innovation important, but very difficult to measure. • Intended goals of public sector organizations may be very broad-reaching. • What are the main objectives of organisations’ innovation activities? What impacts did the implementation of innovations have, both positive and negative?

  14. Coverage and activity classifications Main public sector activities: • Public administration, Education, Human health, Residential care, Social services, Libraries and other cultural activities Business sector activities with ‘high public involvement’: • Not in CIS • Development of building projects; Radio and TV broadcasting; Renting of property, R&D, Employment placement, Creative and arts, Sports. • Covered in CIS • Electricity and gas; Water collection, treatment and supply; Sewerage; Waste collection, management etc.; Passenger transport; Management consultancy, engineering, technical testing.

  15. Target population in Public innovation surveys Three dimensions: ownership, activity and SNA sector

  16. Statistical units • Adequate listings of public sector units in registers? • Common practices across countries? • Enterprise, establishment and activity units: what to do with ’large units’ with many activities?

  17. Time line for project work • Nov-Jan, 2009: • background research, detailed plans for project work • Feb-Aug, 2009: • Meetings with user groups, • interview respondents, cognitive testing • conceptual framework/indicators and survey methodology. • Pilot questionnaire.

  18. Time line for project work • Fall 2009: • Small-scale testing of questionnaire • Deliverables on first stage of work • Workshop for preliminary results (November). • 2010: • Pilot test study • Writing a first draft of measurement guidelines

  19. www.measureinnovation.eu Logo : MeasurePublicInnovation News About Knowledge Database Partners Extranet FAQ Contact Network for Measuring Public Innovation Extranet for Copenhagen Manual partners Introduction text and login User Name Password Discussion Forum Blog - Debate News Welcome to the network for measuring public innovation Introduction text Access Innovation Panels About… Link to Questionnaire Survey

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