You may be interested in the following two new research reports on the theme of global innovation:
The Global Innovation Index 2011: Published in collaboration with Alcatel-Lucent, Booz and Company, the Confederation of Indian Industry and the World Intellectual Property Organization (a specialized agency of the United Nations), this research presents a novel assessment of innovation that covers 125 economies accounting for 93.2% of the world’s population and 98.0% of the world’s Gross Domestic Product (in current US dollars). More details about the report (which has been covered in major international media including BBC, CNN, Forbes, Huffington Post and Wall Street Journal) can be found at: http://www.globalinnovationindex.org
InnovaLatino: The result of a two-year collaboration with the OECD Development Centre and Fundacion Telefónica, this research focuses on innovation dynamics in the business and public sectors in Latin America, drawing attention to and learning lessons from innovation experiments underway in the region, and advocating greater policy attention to innovation in the national development strategies. Co-authored with Mario Pezzini et. al., the report can be downloaded in English, Spanish and Portuguese at:http://www.innovalatino.org