Oslo Manual: Guidelines for Collecting and Interpreting Innovation Data, 3rd Edition (link)

Paris, 03 Nov 2005

The ability to determine the scale of innovation activities, the characteristics of innovation firms and the internal and systemic factors that can influence innovation is a prerequisite for the pursuit and analysis of policies aimed at fostering innovation. The Oslo Manual is the foremost international source of guidelines for the collection and use of data on innovation activities in industry. This third edition, published in October 2005, has been updated to take into account the progress made in understanding the innovation process and its economic impact, and the experience gained from recent rounds of innovation surveys in OECD member and non-member countries. For the first time, the Manual investigates the field of non-technological innovation and the linkages between different innovation types. It also includes an annex on the implementation of innovation surveys in developing countries.

The print edition and browseable pdf of the Oslo Manual will be available on the OECD Online Bookshop. For a direct link to the English version, click here.

The French edition will be published in November.

Subscribers can also access the Oslo Manual in the usual way from the OECD's online library, SourceOECD, at http:///www.sourceoecd.org

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