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08-Jun-2007
The Blue Sky II Forum (Ottawa, September 2006) called for closer collaboration between the statistics and policy communities to help improve the measurement of innovation and of its economic and social impacts. The Joint NESTI-TIP Workshop on Innovation Indicators for Policy Making and Impact Assessment brings together leading statisticians and experts on innovation indicators development as well as senior policy makers and analysts who use innovation indicators in policy development and the assessment of innovation performance.
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06-Dec-2006
Further raising its high performance in innovation is of key importance for boosting Switzerland’s economic growth and maintaining high living standards. This review suggests some reforms in innovation policy which would help to cope with this challenge.
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20-Nov-2006
This publication presents the proceedings of an international workshop that assessed the underlying causes behind the low participation of women in scientific careers, especially at senior levels, and aimed to identify good practice policies to attract, recruit and retain women in scientific careers in public and private research.
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07-Nov-2006
Large-scale study of populations may contribute significantly to science’s understanding of the complex multi-factorial basis of disease and to improvements in prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment and cure. This book summarises the proceedings of a conference on human genetic research databases. It examines what they are and provides a number of examples. It looks at how they have been established, governed, and funded, and how they are managed and commercialised, exploring what the policy implications are for governments.
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25-Aug-2006
OECD member countries have adopted an agreed set of Guidelines for the Licensing of Genetic Inventions used in healthcare, in a move designed to spread the benefits more widely from advances in genetics while making research and innovation faster and more efficient. The Guidelines set out principles and best practices for those in business, research and health systems who enter into license agreements.
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30-Jun-2006
This paper reviews recent evidence and analyses in order to inform policy development. It examines the channels through which firms aim to exploit their IP and complements this firm-level perspective with a review of macroeconomic statistics related to the development of technology markets. The paper reviews various approaches to the valuation of patents and examines the range of policy initiatives undertaken by OECD countries to foster patent valuation and exploitation.
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14-Jun-2006
This new publication explores the emerging concept of behavioural additionality (how government funding of business R&D affects the behaviour of firms) and summarises results of a multinational effort to measure it.
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22-May-2006
A number of OECD countries offer tax incentives to encourage and reward business expenditures on intellectual assets. This paper examines the tax treatment of corporate expenditures on selected intellectual assets and develops an indicator of the relative generosity of tax systems in OECD countries to such investments.
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09-May-2006
The effectiveness of innovation policy depends not only on the design and implementation of individual policy instruments for innovation (e.g. tax incentives, public/private partnership programmes),but also on the way instruments are combined into policy mixes. The report reviews the policy mix for innovation in Iceland.
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20-Mar-2006
This paper outlines factors that may affect the ability of researchers to access patented inventions for legitimate research purposes. It reviews evidence of current and anticipated access limitations and explores options for the formulation of research exemptions that balance research use and patent holder’s rights.
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A comprehensive review of key trends in science, technology and innovation policy including statistics on R&D funding, patents, researchers and other indicators of innovative performance.
OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2006
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