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1 Jo Lorentzen HSRC, Cape Town jlorentzen@hsrc.ac.za
Innovation indicators in South Africa: Do we have any? How good are they? Can we use them for comparisons? Jo Lorentzen HSRC, Cape Town 2nd BRICS workshop, Rio de Janeiro, April 2007

2 Outline Definition Data issues
Existence Quality (dis-)aggregation accessibility Significance for comparative work in BRICS

3 Definition: innovation indicator
A (non-composite) measure of innovative activity of firms (from simple learning to frontier activity) institutions and agencies or elements thereof, whether pursued individually or in conjunction with others.

4 Innovation indicators in South Africa
Quality Format (Dis-) aggregation Accessibility PEOPLE Education Migration bad summary no good RESOURCES R&D Problematic IDEAS Publications not harmonised unreliable terrible Patents hard copy LEARNING Inv. Climate S. Innov. Survey problematic


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