The 2012 Global Information Technology Report has been released on 4 April 2012. This annual report, published jointly by INSEAD and the World Economic Forum since 2001, examines the networked readiness of 142 developed and developing countries worldwide-accounting for over 98 percent of the World's GDP. it analyses how these markets leverage advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) to drive economic productivity and social development, offering a ranking of their technology proficiency.

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According to the Business Software Alliance, the commercial value of software piracy grew 14 percent globally in 2010 to a record total of $58.8 billion, and the problem of piracy is more prevalent in emerging countries. Although there have been anti-piracy education and enforcement campaigns spearheaded in recent years by the software industry, convincing organizations to use genuine software, particularly in emerging markets, is still a big challenge. Whereas some research has been done surrounding the risks and costs for firms of using unlicensed software, white space exists in terms of the economic benefits organizations and countries can realize through the use of genuine software.

The aim of this project is to find a way to estimate what we call the genuine software premium. Since measuring the business value of software is a new area of research we embark on a multi-disciplinary search of the most appropriate methods for that purpose. We focus particularly on the academic literature that deals with the measurement of intangible assets. We identified two main approaches. In a bottom-up approach, the collection of perceptual data with the assessment of executives of specific companies is useful in order to identify the benefits of using genuine software. We base, instead, primarily on a top-down approach, in which we estimate the “causal” impact of using genuine software on economic performance. For that purpose, we employ cross-country observational data of the utilization of both genuine and unlicensed software and key economic indicators. Subject to the availability of suitable data, the analysis we make at the macroeconomic level could also be replicated at the level of sectors or companies.

INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced the findings of the 2010-2011 Global Information Technology Report, Transformations 2.0, a study which the school has jointly published with the World Economic Forum for the past decade. The 10th anniversary edition of the report focuses on information and communications technology’s (ICT) power to transform society through modernisation and innovation.

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Each year since 2007, INSEAD eLab has produced the Global Innovation Index (GII), recognizing the key role off innovation as a driver of economic growth and prosperity. While traditional measures of innovation such as the numbers of patents, publications and PhD researchers are useful, they do not capture the full range of innovations occurring in societies today, especially in emerging markets. The GII recognizes the need for a broader horizontal vision of innovation that is applicable to both developed and emerging economies. The GII is evolving into a valuable benchmarking instrument and tool for facilitating public-private dialogue, whereby policymakers, business leaders and other stakeholders can evaluate progress on a continual basis.

For the 2011 edition of the GII, Knowledge Partners include the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO, a specialized agency of the United Nations), the Confederation of Indian Industry, Booz & Company and Alcatel-Lucent.

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InnovaLatino: Fostering Innovation in Latin America is the result of a collaboration between INSEAD and the OECD Development Centre, and funded by the Fundación Telefónica. The objective of InnovaLatino was to research innovation dynamics in the business and public sectors in Latin America, drawing attention to innovation experiments underway in the region, and advocating greater policy attention to innovation in national development strategies.

This InnovaLatino report draws upon new evidence, information and analysis regarding innovation in Latin America. The report presents results from an exclusive survey of over 1500 manufacturing firms from eight countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. The report also brings together over 50 case studies of various firms and organizations identified as innovation leaders in their sectors. Together, these data highlight that innovation means more than catching-up or even leapfrogging by imitating innovative firms from more developed economies. In several revealing cases, Latin American businesses are redefining global business by developing new business models.

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In one of the most comprehensive studies ever conducted on innovation, INSEAD eLab, in collaboration with Logica, surveyed two hundred CxO level business leaders from blue-chip organisations from both the public and private sectors across Europe, about their views on innovation, and more specifically collaborative innovation.
The research shows that, although they claim to grant high priority to innovation,most companies are handicapped by low levels of innovation readiness. This means that they are lacking in many of the key elements required to create a successful platform for collaborative innovation. Despite increasing their investments in innovation in today’s challenging economic times, organisations are not able to reap the full benefits of these investments due to such low levels of innovation readiness. If leaders do not improve their innovation readiness levels, their organisations will not rank among the future winners of the global economy. This is particularly true given the increasing competition from new competitors from emerging markets such as China and India.
The final report was issued in English and French, and launched at three high-level
events organized respectively in London, Amsterdam and Paris in November-
December 2009.

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