Promoting innovation in the services sector
Subtitle: review of experiences and policies
By: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Publisher: United Nations
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9789211170399
Subjects: Service industries
Notes: "ECE/CECI/9"--T.p. verso.

"United Nations publication. Sales no. E.11.II.E.3"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Innovation in the services sector : concepts, measurements and policy challenges. The challenges for service innovation and service innovation policies / Luis Rubalcaba; title: From understanding to exploiting service innovation; title: the perspective of transition economies / Metka Stare; title: The key role of the cross-pollination space for innovation in services / Michel Léonard and Anastasiya Yurchyshyna; title: Measuring innovation investment in services and policy implications / Michael P. Gallaher; title: Are specific policies needed to stimulate innovation in services? / Adriana van Cruysen and Hugo Hollanders; title: "Structurally non-progressive" service industries need not remain so for ever : a case study on education / Dominique Foray and Julio Raffo; title: pt. 2. national policy experiences and initiatives. The Finnish experience of service innovation policy and measures / Tiina Tanninen-Ahonen and Sami Berghäll; title: Fostering service innovation in renewable energy and sustainable construction : OSEO piloting of EU supported innovation voucher schemes / Vincent Morfouace, Serge Galant and Jacques Gautray; title: Fostering services innovation through research in Germany: the "innovation in services" programme / Zrinka K. Fidermuc Maler and Klaus Zuehlke-Robinet; title: Services innovation in the Netherlands / Hans Simons; title: Promoting services innovation based on better practices : deconstructing business as usual / Irene Martinsson; title: pt. 3. Sector approaches and business perspectives. Towards policies that unlock the potential for service innovation to create new markets and foster innovation in other sectors / Mett Koefoed Quinn; title: The creative economy : leading trade and innovation / Edna dos Santos-Duisenberg and Sudip Ranjan Basu; title: Policy recommendations on innovation in services / Corinna Schulze.