Publications & Documents

An Introduction to Online Platforms and Their Role in the Digital Transformation

The digital innovation policy landscape in 2019

How are OECD countries supporting digital innovation and ensuring that benefits spread across the economy? This paper explores strategies and initiatives currently implemented in OECD countries to support innovation in the digital age.

Occupational mobility, skills and training needs

This paper provides new analysis on how education and training policies can facilitate transitions across occupations while maintaining workers in quality jobs that make maximal use of their skill sets. The analysis also sheds light on the magnitude and type of training needed to help workers move away from occupations at high risk of automation.

OECD global portal on product recalls

This site brings together regularly updated information on product recalls being issued around the world. It includes information on mandatory and voluntary recalls issued by a governmental body and made publicly available. Recalled products can be filtered by category and jurisdiction.

Oslo Met University/OECD workshop on digital technology for science and innovation – Emerging topics for policy and assessment

This November 2018 workshop gathered leading technologists, academics and policy representatives to identify so far untapped opportunities to use digital technology in science and innovation processes as well as emerging topics likely to become important in the future, but which have received limited study to date.

Measuring platform mediated workers

Without a common definition of platform workers, estimates of their numbers are not comparable across countries and over time. This paper starts to address these issues and also highlights innovative uses of data.

Digital security and resilience in critical infrastructure and essential services

This report provides key cross-cutting policy messages from an OECD workshop on the digital transformation's effects on the resilience of critical infrastructures and essential services which rely increasingly on cross-border digital infrastructure.

ICT investments in OECD countries and partner economies: Trends, policies and evaluation

Policies to support ICT investment are a strategic tool to spur the digital transformation and enhance productivity and growth. However, while most countries do carry out some forms of ICT investment policy, very little is known about the effects of these policies.

Local content requirements and their economic effect on shipbuilding: A quantitative assessment

This study analyses two specific local content policies affecting directly or indirectly the shipbuilding industry in two countries: Brazil’s local content requirement as part of national concession contracts in the oil and gas sector, and the long-standing US Jones Act obliging intra-US seaborne trade to be conducted on US-built and US-flagged vessels.

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.