Research and analysis

Innovation and economic growth: Government Economic Service report

Government Economic Service cross-government project examining the importance of innovation to economic growth.

From:
Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
Published
5 November 2014

Documents

Government Economic Service Group on Growth: Innovation

Ref: BIS/14/1169

PDF, 1010 KB, 94 pages

Details

This report, from the Government Economic Service Group on Growth, covers a range of different aspects of innovation. It found common themes on:

  • the link between the research base and firms’ potential
  • the UK leading thinking, but has often lagged in application
  • an innovation system of interacting components
  • how government can (and should) help structure markets
  • evidence gaps and a lack of metrics
  • the importance of policy experimentation

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Published 5 November 2014

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