GLOBALISATION AND

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• GLOBALISATION AND
• OPEN INNOVATION
• Koen De Backer
• Science and Technology Policy Division
• Economic Analysis and Statistics Division
• OECD

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OECD-project on Globalisation and open
innovation (1)

• BACKGROUND
• Firms are turning to a more open model of
  innovation
• Innovation is being democratized
• Increasing globalisation of RD, industry
  structure and value chains
• Business RD is increasingly linked to business
  strategy
• ? IMPACT ON NATIONAL INNOVATION POLICIES

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OECD-project on Globalisation and open
innovation (2)

• SET-UP
• Module 1 Trends, empirical measurement,
  literature overview
• Module 2 Case studies
• Module 3 Policy implications and recommendations
  
• OBJECTIVES
• Open innovation and globalisation
• Empirical evidence
• Heterogeneity in open innovation
• Policy implications

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OECD-project on Globalisation and open
innovation (3)

• TIMING
• Joint conference Dutch Ministry OECD
• Globalisation and open innovation December
  2006, Scheveningen
• Discussions in Technology and Innovation Policy
  (TIP) Working Group
• Final draft report in december 2007
• Final Conference and Business Symposium in
  February 2008
• Final report/publication in March 2008

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Globalisation of business RD

• The Internationalisation of RD (STI Outlook (Ch.
  4) OECD, 2006)
• The Internationalisation of business RD
  evidence, impacts and implications (OECD,
  forthcoming)
• It goes fast
• It is more than only adapting RD to local needs,
  increasingly also technology sourcing
• It spreads to an increasing number of countries,
  including emerging countries

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RD internationalisation towards developed
countries.
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and emerging countries.
Source UNCTAD (2005)
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Openness in innovation
National/regional innovation systems
Industrial districts
Clusters
Triple helix
Open innovation
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Increasing RD-outsourcing and offshoring
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Globalized open innovation

• RD internationalisation and open innovation
  complements or substitutes?
• SMEs versus MNEs
• What is the role of agglomeration economies?
• Ecosystems and networks

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Empirical measurement of open innovation

• Case studies (high tech, United States)
• Databases on technological cooperation
• CIS-4 data
• Patent data
• Survey on licensing out

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Empirical measurement of open innovation CIS-4
data
Firms collaborating in innovation activities, by
size1, 2002-042 As a percentage of all firms
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Empirical measurement of open innovation patent
data
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Case studies participation

• 4 lead countries Belgium, Japan, Netherlands and
  Norway
• Case studies Denmark, Finland, France, Germany
  Greece, Iceland, Russia, Spain and Switzerland

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Case studies (1)
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Case studies (2)
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Case studies (3)
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Case studies (4)

• Questionnaire quantitative questions
  globalisation
• qualitative
  questions open innovation
• Description of activities of your company
• The use of external sources of innovation
• Alternative ways to earn money with in-house
  innovations
• Assessment of the value of external
  projects/firms
• Human resource management
• Intellectual property rights
• Relationships with the national system of
  innovation and innovation polic
• A spects of open innovation not covered yet by
  the interview

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Policy implications (1)
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Policy implications (2)
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• THANK YOU!
• (koen.debacker_at_oecd.org)