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Deletion 

Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification 

I certify that the following action will 

not have a significant impact on a 

substantial number of small entities. 

The major factors considered for this 

certification were: 

1. If approved, the action may result 

in additional reporting, recordkeeping 

or other compliance requirements for 

small entities. 

2. If approved, the action may result 

in authorizing small entities to furnish 

the products to the Government. 

3. There are no known regulatory 

alternatives which would accomplish 

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46–48c) in 

connection with the products proposed 

for deletion from the Procurement List. 

End of Certification 

The following product is proposed for 

deletion from the Procurement List: 

Product 

Inkjet Cartridge 

NSN: 7510–01–544–0834—Use in Canon 

printers BJC–30/50/55/70/80/85/85W. 

NPA: Alabama Industries for the Blind, 

Talladega, AL. 

Contracting Activity: Office Supplies & 

Paper Products Acquisition Ctr, New York, 

NY. 

Kimberly M. Zeich, 

Director, Program Operations. 

[FR Doc. E7–7057 Filed 4–12–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6353–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Economics and Statistics 

Administration 

Innovation Measurement 

AGENCY: Economics and Statistics 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

is seeking public comment on issues 

related to the measurement of 

innovation. This request supports efforts 

of the Measuring Innovation in the 21st 

Century Economy Advisory Committee 

to collect seek advice from the public as 

it prepares recommendations for the 

Secretary of Commerce on new or 

improved measures of business 

innovation. 

DATES: Written comments on this notice 

must be submitted on or before May 11, 

2007. Please note that all comments will 

be made public and published on the 

Committee’s Web site at: 

www.innovationmetrics.gov. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

E-mail: innovationmetrics@doc.gov. 

Fax: (202) 482–2889 (Attn.: Elizabeth 

‘‘E.R.’’ Anderson). 

Mail or Hand Delivery/Courier: 

Elizabeth ‘‘E.R.’’ Anderson, Room 4836 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 

Economics and Statistics 

Administration, 14th Street & 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230. Because we 

continue to experience delays in 

receiving mail, respondents are 

encouraged to submit comments by mail 

early, or to transmit them electronically. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions on the submission of 

comments, contact Elizabeth ‘‘E.R.’’

Anderson. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

charter establishing the Measuring 

Innovation in the 21st Century Advisory 

Committee (the Committee) calls for the 

Committee to make recommendations to 

the Secretary of Commerce on ways that 

will permit better measurement of 

innovation and its impact on the U.S. 

economy. 

The Committee is charged with 

developing innovation metrics that 

inform policy decisions and enable 

policymakers and the business 

community to better monitor 

innovation. Among other things, the 

Committee’s work should build on the 

way firms assess the effectiveness of 

their own innovative activities. The 

recommendations should not only focus 

on measuring innovation activities and 

inputs, but should also focus on the 

results and output of innovation. 

Furthermore, the recommendations 

should allow for analysis at industry, 

sector, national, and international 

levels. 

The type of innovation for which 

measurement improvement is sought is 

defined as: 

The design, invention, development and/or 

implementation of new or altered products, 

services, processes, systems, organizational 

structures, or business models for the 

purpose of creating new value for customers 

and financial returns for the firm.’’

The recommendations will cover the 

following four major categories 

identified by the participants during the 

initial meeting of the Advisory 

Committee: 

1. Improvement of the underlying 

architecture of the U.S. System of 

National Accounts to facilitate 

development of improved and more 

granular measures of innovation and 

productivity; 

2. Identification of appropriate 

economy-wide and sector-specific 

statistical series or other indicators that 

could be used to quantify innovation 

and/or its impacts; 

3. Identification of firm-specific data 

items that could enable comparisons 

and aggregation; and 

4. Identification of specific ‘‘holes’’ in 

the current data collection system that 

limit our ability to measure innovation. 

Comments are solicited to address 

new and/or improved innovation 

measures in each of the above 

categories. Following are some specific 

issues and suggestions raised by 

Advisory Committee members, grouped 

according to the measurement categories 

listed above, on which the Committee 

specifically invites comment. Comments 

need not be limited to these issues and 

suggestions, but should address the 

specific data categories. 

1. Improvement of the underlying 

architecture of the U.S. System of 

National Accounts to facilitate 

development of improved and more 

granular measures of innovation and 

productivity. Our national accounts are 

the main source of information about 

the growth of our national output, 

usually measured by the gross domestic 

product or GDP. Total Factor 

Productivity (TFP) which measures 

growth of output per unit of input for 

the economy as a whole and for 

individual industries is not included in 

the national accounts. Is the concept of 

TFP sufficiently related to innovation to 

warrant the inclusion of economy-wide 

and industry level TFP in the system of 

national accounts? If so, what is the 

most effective way to incorporate the 

concept into the national accounts? Are 

there ways to disaggregate the 

innovation component of TFP to 

differentiate innovation from other 

productivity drivers? 

2. Identification of appropriate 

economy-wide and sector-specific 

indicators that could be used to quantify 

innovation and/or its impacts. Are there 

measures that accommodate economywide (or macro-economic) and sectorspecific notions of innovation? What 

elements of innovation could serve as a 

foundation for statistical series? To what 

extent would the collection of better 

data on service sector outputs and 

services inputs used by all firms 

improve innovation measurement? Is 

market share growth a good indicator of 

innovation? If so, would estimates in the 

change in U.S. firms’ shares of regional, 

national, and global markets be useful 

innovation measures? Could/should 

collaborative connections between 

entities be captured? Since a 

characteristic of markets is that the 


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benefits of innovations flow, at least in 

part, to buyers, are there ways to 

identify the flow of innovations across 

firms and sectors? 

3. Identification of firm-specific data 

items that could enable comparisons 

and aggregation. Current corporate 

innovation measurement appears to be 

done primarily on either a project or a 

portfolio basis. Are these measurement 

practices sufficiently widespread and 

uniform to make data collection on 

either of these bases practical? Is it 

possible or necessary to collect 

information on company culture, 

incentive structures, and organizational 

change? If customer satisfaction is an 

important measure of an innovative 

firm, how can that be captured? How 

important is it to distinguish between 

types of innovation (i.e. radical versus 

incremental)? 

What data would be needed to 

differentiate the characteristics of 

innovative firms within industry sectors 

from non-innovative firms? What are the 

most important measures of the 

underlying process of how innovation 

and productivity advances are initiated 

or stimulated? Could/should an 

understanding of innovation from the 

consumer perspective be developed? 

Could data items from SEC filings be 

used to enhance understanding of 

innovation in public companies? Are 

there proxies for relative innovative 

success (e.g. percent of total revenue 

attributable to new—or significantly 

improved to the point where they could 

be considered new—products, services, 

or processes introduced within the last 

two years into markets where a firm has 

a growing market share) that would 

provide insight into relative innovative 

strength? Is two years long enough? 

4. Identification of specific ‘‘holes’’ in 

the current data collection system that 

limit our ability to measure innovation. 

Some specific types of data holes were 

identified during the meeting, including 

lack of data on firm formation, 

intellectual property licensing costs as a 

type of purchased input, and 

insufficient product detail. What should 

be the prioritized list of specific data 

items needed to fill the holes? 

Limitations on our ability to link and 

coordinate across various data sets were 

also mentioned as a hole or deficiency 

of our current data collection system. 

Are there cost-effective ways of building 

on existing data sets to develop more 

information on innovation drivers and 

their link to success? How could data 

sharing and cooperation among federal 

agencies be improved insofar as such 

agencies maintain data series related to 

the measurement of innovation? Could 

existing private and/or foreign data be 

combined with existing official 

statistical series in order to better 

measure innovation? Are there changes 

that could be made to make such 

combinations possible or easier? 

To assist the Advisory Committee in 

evaluating and comparing specific ideas 

for new or improved innovation 

measurement, comments on proposals 

for new or improved innovation 

measurement should provide the 

following information: 

1. Description of proposal. Proposals 

for new or improved innovation 

measurement should include the 

following: 

• Specific description of the proposed 

change. 

• Identification of the specific 

Committee category to which the 

proposal applies. 

• Rationale for the proposed change. 

• Data description, sources and 

method of collection. 

• Approximate cost and burden 

estimate. 

2. Impact of proposal on innovation 

measurement. Proposals should include: 

• Description of how proposal 

improves measurement of innovation as 

defined by the Advisory Committee. 

• Description of the particular 

elements of innovation measurement 

that are improved by the proposal. 

• Description of how the proposal 

addresses the issues and questions 

raised by the Committee. 

• Description of how the new or 

improved measure would provide 

appropriate signals of changes in 

business behavior for the purpose of 

informing policy debates. 

Page Limit—Submissions should be 

limited to a maximum length of 10 

pages. Identification and Cover Sheet—

Each page of the submission should be 

clearly marked with the submitter’s 

name (and organization, if applicable), 

date of submission, and contact 

information (if the submitter chooses to 

provide it). Each submission should be 

clearly marked as originating from one 

of the following categories of submitters: 

Individuals, Businesses, Government, 

Academia, or Organizations and 

Associations. 

All comments must be submitted to 

the address indicated in this notice. The 

Department requires that all comments 

be submitted in written form. 

The Department encourages interested 

persons who wish to comment to do so 

at the earliest possible time. The period 

for submission of comments will close 

on May 11, 2007. The Department will 

consider all comments received before 

the close of the comment period. 

Comments received after the end of the 

comment period will be considered if 

possible, but their consideration cannot 

be assured. The Department will not 

accept comments accompanied by a 

request that part or all of the material be 

treated confidentially because of its 

business proprietary nature or for any 

other reason. All comments submitted 

in response to this notice will be a 

matter of public record. They will be 

available for public inspection and 

copying and posted on the Advisory 

Committee’s Web site at http:// 

www.innovationmetrics.gov. 

Dated: April 9, 2007. 

Elizabeth (E.R.) Anderson, 

Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 07–1827 Filed 4–12–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

(A–533–809) 

Certain Forged Stainless Steel Flanges 

from India: Notice of Final Results of 

New Shipper Review 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: On January 31, 2007, the 

Department of Commerce (the 

Department) published the preliminary 

results of new shipper review of the 

antidumping duty order on certain 

forged stainless steel flanges from India. 

See Certain Forged Stainless Steel 

Flanges From India; Preliminary Results 

of New Shipper Review, 72 FR 4483 

(January 31, 2007) (Preliminary Results). 

This new shipper review covers Kunj 

Forgings, Pvt., Ltd. (Kunj), a 

manufacturer and exporter of the subject 

merchandise. The period of review is 

February 1, 2005, through January 31, 

2006. 

We did not receive any comments 

from parties, and we have not made any 

changes to our analysis. The final 

weighted–average dumping margin for 

Kunj is thus unchanged from our 

preliminary results of review, and is 

shown in the section entitled ‘‘Final 

Results of Review.’’

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 13, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred 

Baker or Robert James, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office 7, Import 

Administration, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street & Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; 

telephone: (202) 482–2924 or (202) 482–

0649, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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