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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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16-Mar-2007
The Frascati Manual FOS classification is used to classify R&D expenditure by functional fields, notably public sector R&D. The revised FOS reflects the latest changes in S&T, especially as regards emerging fields such as ICT, biotechnology and nanotechnology.
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12-Mar-2007
This document reflects the OECD agreement on the list of economic activities (industries) for the information economy (ICT sector and Content and media sector definitions) based on the UN International Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities (ISIC Rev. 4)
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09-Mar-2007
The definition (classification) of ICT services in this document is part of a set of related definitions that also includes one for the ICT sector and another for ICT goods. Together these definitions are meant to support the production of a variety of ICT statistics.
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20-Feb-2007
The mapping of knowledge is increasingly recognised as a new, evolving area of research. The aim of this study is to map current trends in scientific activities with a view to better understanding and tracking the changing nature of science.
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08-Feb-2007
This paper presents the results of a first data collection on the main demographic, educational, labour market and mobility patterns of doctoral graduates for seven countries.
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29-Nov-2006
This workshop, held in China in October 2006, provided a forum for exchange of experience and mutual learning on best practices in some OECD countries and the current S&T indicator system in China. It sought to explore ways to better address information needs for measuring and monitoring the NIS, and to support evidence-based policy making by improving existing indicators and developing new ones. Workshop presentations are now available online.
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27-Oct-2006
This paper examines the extent to which manufacturing output and employment are declining in OECD countries and explores possible causes, including increased productivity, slow growth in demand for manufacturing products, loss of markets to imports, statistical and classification issues, etc.
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24-Oct-2006
Over the past few years, there has been growing interest in internationally comparable statistics and indicators on productivity growth, which have become an important focus of OECD work. This has included efforts to improve the measurement of productivity growth and work to enhance the understanding of the drivers of productivity performance. The 2006 productivity compendium includes a large number of indicators together with methodological notes, and describes the measurement challenges, data choices and remaining measurement problems.
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24-Oct-2006
The development of the OECD’s input-output database started over a decade ago and it is currently undergoing its second update. This paper describes the database, its uses, and the OECD’s experience in the compilation of these tables in the hope that this may benefit input-output compilers in national statistical offices and provide them with a better understanding of the information needed by the OECD to compile these tables in order to meet the demands of users.
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Just Released
This compendium presents a large number of indicators on productivity and includes methodological notes which describe the measurement challenges, data choices, and remaining measurement problems.
OECD Compendium of Productivity Indicators 2008
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