Policy Brief: Creating Value from Intellectual Assets

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02-Mar-2007

Intellectual assets have become strategic factors for value creation by firms. The expansion of the services sector, globalisation, deregulation, and the emergence of new information technologies have ...

Policy Brief : Keeping Water Safe to Drink

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02-Mar-2006

Access to water that is safe to drink is vital to human health and to development. Recognising this, world leaders have set themselves the goal of halving by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable ...

Policy Brief : Improving Water Management: Recent OECD Experience

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02-Mar-2006

Securing safe and reliable water and sanitation services for all is one of the leading challenges facing sustainable development. All but a few OECD countries have connected 100% of their populations to ...

Policy Brief: Preserving Biodiversity and Promoting Biosafety

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26-May-2005

Biodiversity – the variety of life and of habitats on Earth – is vital to human welfare. The loss or degradation of biodiversity can have important economic, environmental, and social consequences. Altering ...

Policy brief: Science and Innovation Policy: Key Challenges and Opportunities

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26-Jan-2004

Science and technology exert a growing influence on society and the economy.
Scientific achievements continue to expand the frontiers of knowledge
and increasingly contribute to the technological progress that affects how
people live and work.

Health Activities

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06-Jul-2001

Water shortage and contamination are cause for increasing concern in many countries. Every year about 13 million people die from waterborne infections; of these, 2 million are children. The majority of ...

Modern Biotechnology and the OECD

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07-Jun-1999

Scientific understanding of how living things are put together and how they grow and develop based on instructions coded in their DNA is advancing rapidly. The knowledge already acquired and being accumulated ...

Report

OECD countries have the opportunity to optimise the contribution that life sciences and biotechnology can make as a driver for sustainable growth and development.

Biotechnology for Sustainable Growth and Development

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