Innovation is essential to ensuring the UK's future economic competitiveness and social wellbeing. But in our October 2006 report The Innovation Gap, we identified a gulf between how innovation happens and how policy supports it.
Hidden Innovation attempts to bridge this gap by analysing the innovation systems of six sectors that are seen as having low levels of innovation: oil production, retail banking, construction, legal aid services, education and the rehabilitation of offenders.
It examines whether these sectors are truly lacking in innovation, or whether traditional measures of innovation - such as investment in R&D - are failing to capture all of the innovation that takes place.
Published
June 2007
Author
NESTA
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