OECD news on innovation, science, technology and industry

Every month, this newsletter delivers the latest reports, statistics and policy recommendations from the OECD on the translation of science, technology and knowledge into innovation.

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Écotoxicologie et devenir dans l'environnement des nanomatériaux manufacturés: lignes directrices

Ce document comprend les conclusions et les recommandations issues d'un atelier qui portait sur l'écotoxicologie et le devenir environnemental des nanomatériaux manufacturés, et en particulier l'applicabilité des lignes directrices de l'OCDE liée à ces sujets. Suite aux recommandations, un certain nombre de développements pour des documents guide sont en cours à l'OCDE.

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OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy: Croatia

This review offers a comprehensive assessment of Croatia's innovation system, focusing on the role of government.

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National Intellectual Property Systems, Innovation and Economic Development

This project aims to support countries in strengthening the contributions their national intellectual property (IP) systems can make to their socio-economic development, notably through their impacts on innovation performance.

Promoting Research Excellence: New Approaches to Funding

This report presents new evidence on how governments steer and fund public research in higher education and public research institutions through research excellence initiatives (REIs). It provides information on how REIs work and institutions that host centres of excellence. The findings show some of the benefits to be gained through REIs and pitfalls to be avoided.

Intelligent Demand: Policy Rationale, Design and Potential Benefits

This paper reviews demand-side innovation policies, their rationales and importance across countries, different approaches to their design, the challenges entailed in their implementation and evaluation, and good practices. Three main forms of demand-side policy are considered: innovation-oriented public procurement, innovation-oriented regulations, and standards, with emphasis on innovation-oriented public procurement.

Considerations in Moving towards a Statistical Framework for Nanotechnology

This report presents findings from a pilot survey of business activity in nanotechnology and discusses methodological and practical issues (e.g. the use of definitions) for on-going consideration in work on statistics and indicators for nanotechnology. It identifies how work in this area may support the assessment of other emerging technologies via an integrated framework.

International Distributed Research Infrastructures: Issues and Options

This report presents findings and analyses regarding formal status, governance, establishment, funding, access and other issues. It is the result of a survey of existing infrastructures, followed by discussions among infrastructure practitioners: researchers, facility administrators, officials of ministries and funding agencies.

Workshop on Integrating Omics and Policy for Healthy Ageing: Synthesis Report

An ageing population brings new challenges both to healthcare systems and to medicine in terms of the increased manifestation of specific diseases primarily seen in the elderly. Biomedical innovation, and in particular research into "omics technologies", offers the promise of new means of detection, prevention and treatment of age-related disabilities and diseases.

Principaux indicateurs de la science et de la technologie

Un jeu d'indicateurs mis à jour régulièrement qui reflète le niveau et la structure des efforts menés par les pays de l'OCDE et par une sélection d'économies non-membres dans les domaines de la science et de la technologie.

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• Main Science and Technology Indicators