07/04: Just How Innovative are New Zealand Firms? Quantifying & Relating Organisational and Marketing Innovation to Traditional Science & Technology Indicators
[ Last Updated 28 August 2007 ]
Short Description
This paper explores the strategies, practices and characteristics that make firms successful and finds that good management practice combined with innovative activities provides an additional effect on future innovation outcomes.
Author
Richard Fabling
June 2007
The author is a Chief Advisor (Economic Strategy) at MED on temporary secondment to SNZ, and is an affiliate of Motu Economic and Public Policy Research. The views expressed in this paper are his and do not necessarily represent any of these organisations. The author wishes to thank (without implicating): Julia Gretton & Hamish Hill (both SNZ) for extremely able research assistance; and Eileen Basher (SNZ), Arthur Grimes (Motu) & Bettina Schaer (MED) for helpful feedback on the paper.
Contact: Occasionalpapers@med.govt.nz
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