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Dr. Mark Freel, University of Ottawa and Prof. Richard Harrison, Queen's University Belfast

ISBN 978 0 7559 1548 4 (Web only publication)

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Contents

Executive Summary

1. Innovation in Scotland: Community Innovation Survey (CIS4) Main Indicators
1.1 Section Summary
1.2 Introduction
1.3 Innovation Activity
1.4 Sectoral Variations
1.5 Innovation Expenditure
1.6 Degrees of Innovation
1.7 Skills and Innovation
1.8 Barriers to Innovation
1.9 Innovation Effects
1.10 Sources of Information
1.11 Innovation-related Cooperation
1.12 Wider Innovation
1.13 Changes over time: 2001 and 2005 survey
1.14 Concluding Remarks

2. Regional Benchmarking
2.1 Section Summary
2.2 Introduction
2.3 Main Indicators
2.4 Product and Process Innovation
2.5 Cooperation and Public Support
2.6 Firm Size
2.7 Concluding Remarks

3. Selected Insights: Innovation and Cooperation
3.1 Section Summary
3.2 Introduction
3.3 The Extent of Innovation-Related Cooperation in Scotland
3.4 Cooperation and Innovation Outcomes
3.5 Cooperation and Innovativeness
3.6 The Reach of Innovation-Related Cooperation
3.7 The Relative Embeddedness of Scottish Firms
3.8 Cooperative Reach and Innovativeness
3.9 The Characteristics of Cooperative Innovators
3.10 Concluding Remarks

4. Selected Insights: Knowledge-intensive Services
4.1 Section Summary
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Innovation in services
4.3 Patterns of innovation outcomes
4.4 Patterns of innovation inputs and activities
4.5 Barriers to innovation
4.6 Wider innovation
4.7 Concluding remarks

5. Concluding remarks

6. References

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