Insights blog: Tackling spectrum crunch - Is more sharing the answer?

An OECD report looks at new approaches to enhance spectrum management to make more spectrum resources available for wireless communication services to meet current and future demand and, at the same time, increase the efficiency in its use.

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Making Innovation Policy Work: Learning from Experimentation

Building on concrete examples, this book explores emerging topics in innovation policy for more inclusive and sustainable growth.

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L’autorité colombienne de régulation des télécommunications doit être dotée de pouvoirs supplémentaires pour développer la concurrence, selon l’OCDE

La Colombie a beaucoup fait pour renforcer les règles régissant son secteur des télécommunications mais elle doit donner à son autorité de régulation davantage de pouvoir pour faire appliquer ces règles et ainsi développer la concurrence, notamment sur le marché très concentré de la téléphonie mobile, selon un nouveau rapport de l’OCDE.

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OECD Review of Telecommunication Policy and Regulation in Colombia

This review makes recommendations aimed at furthering regulatory reform and stimulating market competition and investment in the sector as a building block for the future development of the Colombian economy.

Measuring R&D Tax Incentives

Research & development tax incentives have become an important policy instrument in several OECD countries and partner economies to encourage firms to invest in R&D. This page provides an overview of the latest indicators on R&D tax incentives featured in the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2013.

Summary description of R&D tax incentive schemes for OECD countries and selected economies, 2013

Summary description of R&D tax incentive schemes for OECD countries and selected economies, 2013

Consumer Policy Guidance for Mobile and Online Payments

This guidance addresses a number of key issues in the emerging mobile and online payment area, including the need to establish minimum levels of consumer protection across payment mechanisms, enhanced privacy and child protection, and standards for transparent and accessible information disclosures.

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The Internet in Transition: The State of the Transition to IPv6 in Today's Internet and Measures to Support the Continued Use of IPv4

This report considers the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 alongside the use of network technologies to prolong IPv4 use in the face of depletion of further IPv4 protocol addresses.

Innovation statistics

The OECD has played a key role in the development of international guidelines for surveys of business innovation and the design of indicators constructed with data from such surveys. In addition to developing methodological guidance, the OECD also carries out analytical studies using innovation-related indicators and microdata.

Environmental Policies and Risk Finance in the Green Sector: Cross-country Evidence

Risk finance is essential for new ventures to commercialise new ideas and grow, especially in emerging sectors. Yet very little is known about the drivers and characteristics of risk finance in the green sector. This paper aims to fill this gap by providing a detailed description of risk finance in the green sector across 29 countries and identifying the role that policies might have in shaping high-growth investments.