Resources and links

Background reading | Publications on innovation
OECD links | External links | Events

Background reading

• 2009 Interim Report on the OECD Innovation Strategy: an agenda for policy action on innovation, June 2009
• Policy Responses to the Economic Crisis: Investing in Innovation for Long-term Growth, June 2009
• Towards an Innovation Strategy for the 21st Century, presentation by D. Pilat and A. Wyckoff of the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry at the 16 June 2009 Lisbon Council meeting in Brussels
• Making innovation strategy succeed in a globalised world
  Introductory remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the International Economic Forum of the Americas, 8 June 2009, Montreal, Canada
• Entrepreneurship Education in Europe, by Karen Wilson, European Foundation for Entrepreneurship Research. Chapter from the OECD publication Entrepreneurship and Higher Education.
• Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs, World Economic Forum
• Sustainability and the Role of Innovation Policies in the Current Financial Crisis, summary of an informal seminar held in February 2009
• OECD Work on Innovation: A Stocktaking of Existing Work (STI Working Paper 2009/2)
• Revising the Lisbon Strategy through the OECD Innovation Strategy, speech by OECD Deputy Secretary-General Pier Carlo Padoan at the INCOM Workshop on Innovation and Growth Policy in the EU, Prague, 22-23 January 2009
• Harnessing innovation for sustainable growth, a two-page brief on the Innovation Strategy
• "A Cat’s Cradle for Policy: The OECD Innovation Strategy", by S. Huttner and F. Gault, Nature, September 2008
• "Towards an Innovation Strategy", by A. Gurria, OECD Secretary-General, OECD Observer, October 2007
• Innovation and Growth: Rationale for an Innovation Strategy, September 2007
• Ministerial mandate for the OECD Innovation Strategy, May 2007

Selected OECD publications on innovation

• Eco-Innovation in Industry: Enabling Green Growth (January 2010)
• OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2009 (December 2009)
• Innovation and Growth: Chasing a Moving Frontier (December 2009)
• Innovation in the Software Sector (November 2009)
• Innovation in Firms: A Microeconomic Perspective (November 2009)
• Pharmacogenetics: Opportunities and Challenges for Health Innovation (November 2009)
• Open Innovation in Global Networks (October 2008)
• OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy, an ongoing series of publications reviewing individual countries' national innovation systems
• OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2007: Innovation and Performance in the Global Economy (October 2007)
• Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators in a Changing World: Responding to Policy Needs (September 2007)
• Oslo Manual: Guidelines for Collecting and Interpreting Innovation Data, 3rd edition (October 2005)

OECD links

• Innovation and the economic crisis
• Science and innovation
• Innovation and technology policy
• Education and innovation (see also digital learning resources as systemic innovation: country reports)
• Environmental policy and technological innovation (see also climate change and innovation)
• Trade and innovation
• Regional innovation
• Sustainable manufacturing and eco-innovation
• OECD reviews on local innovation and entrepreneurship
• Reviews of higher education institutions in regional development

External links

• European Commission Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs: Towards a Green and Innovative Economy
• Video: Innovation in a recession: Threat or opportunity?
• Proposals for Finland’s National Innovation Strategy
• UK Innovation Nation
• National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), UK
• New Challenges for Germany in the Innovation Competition
• Kauffman Foundation