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Main Science and Technology Indicators (MSTI) 2011/2: R&D spending hit by the economic downturn in 2009
15-Feb-2012
MSTI is a timely set of indicators that reflect the level and structure of efforts undertaken in the field of science and technology. The latest data help look at what happened to R&D investments during the latest years of the global recession. Namely, gross domestic expenditures on R&D in the OECD area shrunk by 1.6% in real terms in 2009 and for the first time since 1993. The decrease is mainly driven by a sharp reduction of expenditure in business (-4.5%) in contrast to other sectors, particularly higher education (+4.8%), where R&D spending kept growing.
New working paper: Compilation of Bilateral Trade Database by Industry and End-use Category
21-Dec-2011
The OECD STAN Bilateral Trade Database by Industry and End-use Categor (BTDIxE) presents international trade in goods flows broken down both by industry sectors and by end-use categories, allowing insights into the patterns of trade in intermediate goods between countries to track global production networks and supply chains as well as helping to address other trade-related policy issues such as trade in value added and tasks.
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