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Ireland’s Innovation Performance: 1991 to 2005. Quarterly Economic Commentary, Summer 2008

Hewitt-Dundas, Nola and Roper, Stephen (2008) Ireland’s Innovation Performance: 1991 to 2005. Quarterly Economic Commentary, Summer 2008. [Working Paper]

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    In this paper we use data from the five waves of the Irish Innovation Panel (IIP) to profile the innovation performance of manufacturing plants in Ireland and Northern Ireland over the period 1991 to 2005. Despite considerable public sector investment on both sides of the border levels of innovation activity have remained broadly similar throughout this period although somewhat different trends are evident in Ireland and Northern Ireland. In terms of product innovation for example, the proportion of manufacturing plants making product changes has increased 5 per cent in Ireland and just over 7 per cent in Northern Ireland. In terms of process innovation a decline of almost 7 per cent in Ireland has been accompanied by a 7 per cent increase in Northern Ireland. These trends provide some evidence of convergence in innovation performance over the 1991 to 2005 period. This is evident in the narrowing gap between the proportion of product innovators in Ireland and Northern Ireland, convergence in the proportion of plants undertaking process innovation and in terms of the increasingly similar proportions of sales derived from innovative products.

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    Item Type: Working Paper
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > innovation policy
    Countries > Ireland
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin > ESRI Quarterly Economic Commentary
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 23 Sep 2019 14:31
    Number of Pages: 25
    Last Modified: 23 Sep 2019 14:31
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/99562

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