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Ship recycling: An overview

This report includes an overview of the ship recycling market with descriptive statistics on the determinants for the decision of ship-owners to demolish vessels, and elaborating on the main market players and the economics of ship recycling.

An analysis of market-distorting factors in shipbuilding: The role of government interventions

This report analyses market-distorting factors in the shipbuilding industry with a focus on government interventions. It argues that such interventions in this cyclical industry do more harm than good by exacerbating and prolonging economic downturns through two channels and seeks to provide policy makers with a better understanding of how different factors can contribute to excess capacity.

University-Industry Collaboration - New Evidence and Policy Options

Digital Innovation - Seizing Policy Opportunities

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.

Bits and bolts: The digital transformation and manufacturing

This paper presents a framework for measuring the digital transformation of manufacturing industries, and maps the impact of digital technologies across these several dimensions: firm productivity growth, business dynamism, industry concentration, firm mark-ups and mergers and acquisition activity.

Roundtable on online consumer reviews: Summary of discussion

With businesses and consumers making widespread use of online consumer reviews, this November 2018 roundtable explored several issues relating to the architecture and implementation of online review mechanisms, impact on consumer behaviour, and standards and requirements for consumer protection.

Measuring Tax Support for R&D and Innovation

Governments worldwide increasingly rely on tax incentives in addition to direct support measures (e.g. grants) to promote R&D in firms and encourage innovation and economic growth. The OECD has developed experimental methodologies and a detailed database on R&D tax incentives with the latest indicators on the cost and information on the design and scope of R&D tax incentives.

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.