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Executive Summary (The Innovation Imperative: Contributing to Productivity, Growth and Well-Being)
New sources of growth are urgently needed to help the world move to a stronger, more inclusive and sustainable growth path following the financial crisis. Innovation – which involves the creation and diffusion of new products, processes and methods – can be a critical part of the solution. While not a goal in itself, innovation provides the foundation for new businesses, new jobs and productivity growth and is thus an important driver of economic growth and development. Innovation can help address pressing social and global challenges, including demographic shifts, resource scarcity and the changing climate. Moreover, innovation can help address these challenges at the lowest cost. Innovative economies are more productive, more resilient, more adaptable to change and better able to support higher living standards.

Country Reports

- Canada (Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2016: An OECD Scoreboard), 2016
- Economic stability and trust in institutions in Canada (Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Canada), 2015
- Executive summary (Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Australia), 2015
- Economic stability and trust in institutions in Australia (Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Australia), 2015
- United States (Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2016: An OECD Scoreboard), 2016
Thematic Reports

- Trust in the digital economy: Security and privacy (OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2015), 2015
- An overview of the digital economy (OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2015), 2015
- Crowdfunding for SMEs (New Approaches to SME and Entrepreneurship Financing: Broadening the Range of Instruments), 2015
- Building trust for data-driven innovation (Data-Driven Innovation: Big Data for Growth and Well-Being), 2015
- Business enterprise R&D (Frascati Manual 2015: Guidelines for Collecting and Reporting Data on Research and Experimental Development), 2015
What Countries are Doing
Published by OECD in 2015
Access Options
Relevant IPP Pages

- Policy-making contexts for technology transfer and commercialization
- The OECD Innovation Strategy 2015
- Knowledge creation, diffusion and commercialisation
- Key actors for innovation in firms
- Relative contributions of universities and PRIs
- Innovation today
- Prototyping and industrial scale-up
- Technology transfer offices
- IP users
- Long-term and short-term profit objectives
- What sorts of linkages can foster innovation?