Innovation Reports

• IBM-Melbourne Institute Innovation Index of Australian Industry 2008 (PDF, 2.65MB)

The IBM – Melbourne Institute Innovation Index of Australian Industry is a comprehensive, inter-industry, multi-indicator approach to measuring the rate of innovative activity in Australia. It embraces six different dimensions of innovation adjusting the measure for the level of economic activity. Accordingly, the Innovation Index is a measure of the proportion of total activity that is taken up with innovative endeavours in Australia.
• IBM - Melbourne Institute Innovation Index of Australian Industry 2007
(PDF, 1.29MB).
The IBM - Melbourne Institute 'Innovation Index of Australian Industry' tracks patterns in the rate of innovative activity among Australian businesses (including government trading enterprises but not the non-trading government sector such as education) since 1990. It includes the intensity of innovations in relation to goods and services, technical operations, and organisational, managerial and marketing functions.
ISSN 1834-6243
• R & D and Intellectual Property Scoreboard 2008
• R & D and Intellectual Property Scoreboard 2006: Benchmarking Innovation in Australian Enterprises(PDF, 254 Kb)
• Australian Patent Applications Scoreboard 2008(PDF, 3.8 Kb)