Publications & Documents

Developing Minds in the Digital Age - Towards a Science of Learning for 21st Century Education

Science-industry knowledge exchange: A mapping of policy instruments and their interactions

Countries deploy a variety of policy instruments to promote science-industry knowledge exchange. While these instruments are often discussed in isolation, they are implemented collectively and may negatively affect each other or add excessive complexity. This paper develops a conceptual framework to map policy instruments for knowledge exchange and assess interactions.

CSTP High-level Roundtable on “Innovating Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for Society”

Today, digital technologies are transforming science and innovation, but budgets remain under pressure and trust in governments has declined. This is making it more difficult for policymakers to harness the benefits of the digital transformation.

Public research and innovative entrepreneurship: Preliminary cross-country evidence from micro data

This paper provides a first assessment of the degree to which public research contributes to innovative entrepreneurship, using data on start-ups and venture capital.

Reference framework for assessing the scientific and socio-economic impact of research infrastructures

This report provides funders, decision-makers and research infrastructure (RI) managers with a versatile tool, based on current community practices, to evaluate the achievement of scientific and socio-economic objectives realistically. The framework can be adapted for different types of RIs and different stages in the RI life cycle.

Open Science

The OECD is working with member and non-member economies to review policies to promote open science and to assess their impact on research and innovation.

Fostering science and innovation in the digital age - policy note

Digitalisation is reshaping all stages of science, from agenda setting to experimentation, knowledge sharing and public engagement.

Measuring the Digital Transformation - A Roadmap for the Future

OECD Going Digital Summit: “The Promises of Digital Transformation”

The digital transformation is not new, but the pace of change has quickened, with our hyperconnected societies generating huge volumes of data of all kinds. This flood of data is transforming value generation, decision-making and production, similarly to how new materials or the advent of combustion engines transformed economies and societies in past eras.

UNESCO conference on “Principles for AI: Towards a humanistic approach?”

Today’s conference looks at a key aspect of that digital transformation: Artificial Intelligence. It examines how to bring human-centred values, inclusion and well-being to the heart of AI. In other words, how to make AI less artificial and more intelligent.