Measuring and Accounting for Innovation in the 21st Century

The National Income and Product Accounts and other economic statistics—designed in an age when the structure of the economy was vastly different than that of today—do not yet fully account for the wide range of innovative activity that is plainly evident in everyday experience. This limitation of our existing measurement system significantly hinders researchers, analysts, and policymakers. Better measures of innovative activity are necessary to understand the challenges and consequences of innovation and to inform the design of policies that best promote it.

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