Global Confidence in Innovation Holds Despite Economy
1. Global Confidence in Innovation Holds Despite Economy
San Francisco, CA (Vocus) January 29, 2009
The public’s inclination towards progressive merchandise was largely unaffected by the drop in
consumer self confidence final year, according to the 2008 IIIP Innovation Confidence Index
that was expanded to cover each and every region of the world and released publicly
nowadays.

The survey also located that societal values are much more critical than individual
demographics, this kind of as age or schooling, in predicting whether or not regional buyers will
accept progressive items. For illustration, a middle-aged non-entrepreneur in a classic society
like Colombia is substantially a lot more likely to believe new goods or companies will boost his
daily life than a young Finnish entrepreneur.

“Worldwide, we discovered that people’s self confidence in innovation appears to be
independent of regardless of whether the economic climate is going up or down and that
individuals in countries with much more conventional social values are a lot more likely to
welcome innovation. The IIIP Innovation Confidence Index is the only distinct snapshot of
consumers’ receptivity to progressive items, and findings like these give critical insights for
creating world-wide advertising approaches,” the report’s author Dr. Jonathan Levie of the
University of Strathclyde in Glasgow stated.

The annual survey commissioned by the Institute for Innovation & Info Productivity (IIIP)
exhibits a dip of just one percent on regular in consumers’ openness towards innovation across
the seven nations sampled in each 2007 and 2008. Comparatively, overall personal self
confidence in neighborhood financial problems dropped eight percent on typical across the
identical countries for the duration of an equivalent period, as reported by A.C. Nielsen’s client
confidence index.

The 2008 IIIP Innovation Self-assurance Index incorporates responses from 81,000 customers
and addresses 25 countries, much more than doubling the geographic attain of the 2007
research. The survey gives a country-by-nation typical of the percentage of customers between
18 and 64 many years outdated who agreed that inside of the up coming six months they had
been probably to purchase goods or solutions new to the market place, they were very likely to
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2. try out merchandise or solutions that use new technologies for the 1st time, and that new goods
and solutions would improve their lives.

Innovation Linked to Values Most Popular in Producing Nations, Among Youthful:
All round, the report discovered that societal values eclipsed personalized demographics in
figuring out how receptive people are to innovation. Nations rated as “classic” by the Globe
Values Survey, like Ireland, the United States and these in South America, had a higher degree
of innovation self-assurance than nations where secularism is valued, such as the Netherlands,
Finland and Japan.

Overall the survey found:
????The folks of South American and African countries, such as Colombia, Peru, Angola,
South Africa and Uruguay, scored highest as accepting of innovative new products and
providers. 
????The regular innovation self confidence index for eight South American and Caribbean
countries was 70, in comparison with an regular of 53 for ten European nations. 
????The United States and Mexico both had mid-degree scores of 60. 
????Countries in the Middle East and Asia varied broadly in their attitudes toward innovation.

????On common, two-thirds of functioning-age customers in producing countries were receptive
to revolutionary products and providers in contrast with half of this group in a lot more
developed nations. This is partly since younger individuals have a tendency to be much more
receptive to new items and the age profile of producing nations is younger.
The IIIP-sponsored index was implemented by the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at the
University of Strathclyde in association with the Global Entrepreneurship Investigation
Association and its annual World-wide Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) report. It is intended to
offer enterprise and government a legitimate measurement of which regions and varieties of
buyer are most open to innovative goods and gives insights for evaluating markets or financial
policies.

The report with country-by-nation innovation confidence chart and evaluation is accessible at no
cost on the Institute’s Internet website at http://www.iii-p.org. The 2008 IIIP Innovation Self
confidence Index was issued as an independent supplement to the yearly GEM report to
attendees at the 2009 GEM Planning Meeting on Jan. 15-18 at Babson School in Mass., U.S.A.

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3. Altering 21st Century Business Metrics:
Phil McKinney, IIIP president and vice president and chief technologies officer of the Personal
Systems Group at HP, mentioned, “Armed with an understanding of the cultural influence of
innovation, international firms can execute new products and providers that actually matter. The
IIIP Customer Confidence Index provides critical path to sector and globe governments in
search of to encourage the social advantages of innovation by means of policy path and
investment.”

The Institute is a collaboration of company, academic and philanthropic experts functioning
collectively to define the new metrics of the information age and has launched a variety of
scientific studies seeking to comprehend the most productive ways to deploy innovation and
attain a beneficial influence on society. For instance, the IIIP is currently finalizing a study of the
economic effect of social networks and the partnership between consumers, conduct patterns
and income generation.

About the IIIP:
Organization functionality metrics today typically fall short of 21st century requirements due to
the fact they disregard the gains from new technological innovation or tradeoffs amid a number
of investments. The Institute for Innovation & Details Productivity develops new
measurements and finest practices to better realize the aspects affecting organizational
performance, scientific studies the effect of engineering, and encourages a world-wide dialogue
on bettering operational results. Formed in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, the IIIP is
led by HP, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical R&D, Microsoft and Quintiles
Transnational Corp. and looks to offer important insights for managing company in the
information economic system. A lot more details about the Institute is readily available at
http://www.III-P.org.

Media Contact: For interviews with Phil McKinney or other members of the IIIP Board, please
make contact with Linda Marcus, APR, Astra Communications, 714-974-6356

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