Competing in the Global Economy – The Innovation Challenge

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Fig 58. Percentage of turnover from novel products for product innovators Percentage Large businesses are always more likely to engage in innovation activity than small, although they have a lower share of their turnover from new products than SMEs. This probably reflects size effects (larger firms have a wider product range). The greater market reach of larger firms means that innovations have much greater economic impact. Product innovating firms in London generate 43 per cent of their turnover from new or improved products, well over the UK average of 34 per cent. The position is similar for novel products. Of those firms that introduced novel products SME’s generated a much higher percentage of their turnover from these products than large firms. The only region where this was not true, Northern Ireland relied by far the least on novel products for its turnover (three times less than the UK average). Also novel innovators in London made the greatest percentage of turnover from novel products at 32 per cent. Further analysis shows that variations in the propensity to innovate and the degree of innovation intensity are larger between industries than between regions, suggesting that regional innovation levels are substantially the result of industry location effects. The Community Innovation Survey 210 covered in some detail the networks of communication through knowledge transfer or co-operation between business and the science and engineering base. A higher share of businesses in the North East report the science and engineering base as an important source of information while the lowest share was in London (Fig 59). The next level of engagement with the range of external sources of innovation capability or knowledge is more formal co-operative research projects. Eight percent of firms surveyed in the UK said that they had one or more formal cooperation agreements on innovation projects with a variety of other businesses and institutions 210 In this extract from the results of the community innovation survey respondents were asked to rank the importance of several potential sources of information for innovation as being not used, low, medium or high. Science, Engineering and Technology Base sources include: • Universities or other higher education institutes • Government research organisations • Other public sector such as business links and government offices • Private research institutes 75 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 London East South East Wales South West North East UK Yorks and Humbs North West West Midlands East Midlands Scotland Northern Ireland
Fig 59. Region of enterprises finding SEB sources of information of some importance, percentage of all respondents Percentage 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 North East West Midlands North West Northern Ireland Yorks and the Humbs Wales South West UK East Midlands South East around the UK and the world. Most collaborations were with national rather than local or regional partners in all regions of the UK except Northern Ireland where local partnerships were more prevalent. Overall the data shows that firms throughout the UK look beyond their immediate location when they describe their customer base or when they look for specialised sources of knowledge or collaboration opportunities (e.g. links to the Science Base). Although many firms will of course rely on access to skilled labour on local or regional labour markets. This suggests that policy delivery needs to reflect a division of labour between regional and national government. National government has a greater role to play where there are clear economies of scale or scope – for example developing technology programmes relevant to firms across more than one region. Scotland East London 76
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DTI ECONOMICS PAPER NO. 7 Competing
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Foreword The recent DTI strategy sh
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Key factors determining UK innovati
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Challenges facing the UK • The op
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Contents Introduction..............
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Part I: Innovation and productivity
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Growth accounting studies 8 have be
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Community Innovation Survey The Com
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Analysis 25 of patents and other IP
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Fig 22. The barriers to lean manufa
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The mapping of the ‘national inno
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