abstract Scholars dedicated increasing attention towards appreciating how design has
changed individuals' perception of new products, firms' understanding and formulation of …

This paper presents an overview of the state of the art in the field surrounding the
measurement of “intangibles” for productivity analysis. The purpose of the paper is to inform …

We use an augmented version of the UK Innovation Surveys 4–7 to explore firm-level and
local area openness externalities on firms' innovation performance. We find strong evidence …

Over the past two decades, the importance of design and the value of design thinking as a
tool for innovation have been recognized by both business and government. Firms such as …

Investments in design can make a significant contribution to successful new product
development (NPD). However, there is insufficient evidence on the most appropriate or …

Schumpeterian arguments related to creative destruction place small, entrepreneurial firms
at the centre of the innovation process. The exclusion of micro-enterprises (with less than 10 …

The following study investigates the perception potential users have when considering the
adoption of voice assistants (VAs). VAs are considered to possess characteristics linkable to …

This working paper sums up the main findings of an OECD project aiming to provide an
evidence basis for focusing efforts to improve the measurement of technological and non …

This paper investigates whether a green kind of design helps firms increase their
capabilities for inventing in the environmental domain and whether it does so more than …

A decade after their introduction, approximately three-quarters of a million European
registered community designs (RCDs) have been filed, and recent court cases suggest firms …