Guidelines for Collecting, Reporting and Using Data on Innovation Organización de Cooperación y Desarrollo Económico creator Eurostat. Oficina de Estadística de la Unión Europea text lu Luxembourg : París OECD Publishing 2018 4th monographic eng 254 p. What is innovation and how should it be measured? Understanding the scale of innovation activities, the characteristics of innovative fi rms and the internal and systemic factors that can infl uence innovation is a prerequisite for the pursuit and analysis of policies aimed at fostering innovation. First published in 1992, the Oslo Manual is the international reference guide for collecting and using data on innovation. In this fourth edition, the manual has been updated to take into account a broader range of innovation-related phenomena as well as the experience gained from recent rounds of innovation surveys in OECD countries and partner economies and organisations specialized OCDE, Eurostat Sociedad digital data innovation 990007284430204201