This edition probes into the journeys of entrepreneurs from across Europe, discovering their motivation, and recording their struggles along the way. In ‘Secrets of Success’ we showcase small and medium-sized enterprises in the European Members States and countries in COSME, Europe’s programme for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Infografia sobre el percentatge d'autoria femenina en l'àmbit de les patents a nivell global, universitari i per sectors tecnològics.

El ranking universitario que desarrolla conjuntamente la Fundación BBVA y el Ivie analiza los resultados docentes, en investigación y en innovación y desarrollo tecnológico de 61 universidades españolas, 48 públicas y 13 privadas.

This report focuses on the case study of the Boston area and identifies the key success factors in the Boston regional innovation ecosystem. It discusses how the macro-innovation eco-ecosystem is composed by a variety of interconnected micro-innovation ecosystems, mutually reinforcing each other and making the entire “territorial” system successful. The spatial configuration of these micro-innovation ecosystems at the urban scale has been specifically investigated, thus leading the authors to theorize that the Innovation District may act as an enabler for place-based innovation. Evidence from the Boston case study shows that there is not a single magic recipe for the successful implementation of place-based and social innovation-driven strategies. On the contrary, the variety of place-grounded combinations of micro and macro initiatives, embedded in the social and spatial fine grain of places and encompassing a diversity of actors, can create the conditions that enable places to thrive and local economic activities to grow in a sustainable way.

We provide a novel evidence about the innovation-employment nexus by decomposing it by R&D intensity in a continuous setup and relaxing the linearity assumption. Using a large international firm-level panel data set for OECD countries and employing a flexible semi-parametric method – the generalised propensity score – allows us to recover the full functional relationship between the R&D-driven innovation and firm employment as well as address important econometric issues, which is not possible in the standard estimation approach used in the previous literature. Our results confirm that the relationship between innovation and employment entails important non-linearities responsible for significant differences in employment response to innovation at different R&D intensity levels.

Presenta los datos estadísticos de 2018 correspondientes a las distintas modalidades de Propiedad Industrial: Patentes, Modelos de Utilidad, Marcas, Nombres Comerciales y Diseños Industriales. Las tablas y gráficos permiten una comparación de la evolución de las distintas modalidades respecto a años anteriores. Además de datos de origen nacional, incluye datos sobre solicitudes internacionales de origen español mediante el sistema PCT, el sistema de Madrid (marca internacional) y el sistema de la Haya (diseño internacional), así como de solicitudes regionales de origen español, Patente Europea, Marca de la Unión Europea y Diseño Comunitario.

Cifras OEPM 2018 de un vistazo (Infografía)

This report discusses challenges and opportunities in assessing the impacts of science-industry knowledge exchange on innovation. The report provides new evidence on joint industry-science patenting activity and academic start-ups, as well as on the impact of geographical proximity between research institutions and industry on local innovation. The report explores the complex set of knowledge-transfer channels, such as collaborative research, co-patenting, academic spinoffs, and their relative importance across science fields and industry sectors. It also experiments with using labour force survey data to assess the contributions of graduates in social sciences to different industries. Different policy mixes are used in OECD countries to stimulate science-industry knowledge transfer. This report presents a taxonomy of 21 policy instruments, which include grants for collaborative university-industry research and financial support to university spin-offs, and discusses their possible positive and negative interactions. Based on a number of country case studies, the report also sheds light on new policy approaches to support spin-off creation. The report also explores recent trends on the governance of public research of high relevance to science-industry knowledge transfer using newly developed policy indicators for 35 OECD countries.