New Developments in Educational Software and Multimedia - background paper

There is an urgent need for both policy makers and market operators to deal with the new opportunities for trading different types of content in digital form, and to reach a common re-definition of goods and services in a new global trading envir...

Human Capital Investment - An International Comparison (online publication)

Investment in human capital is to the fore of debate and analysis in OECD countries about how to promote economic prosperity, fuller employment, and social cohesion. Individuals, organisations and nations increasingly recognise that high levels o...

NIS (Phase II) - CLSTR: Creating a Coherent Design for Cluster Analysis and Related Policies: The Austrian TIP Experience

This paper intends to bring the Austrian tip experience to the focus group on 'Cluster Analysis & Cluster Policies' within the OECD National Innovation Systems (NIS) Project. A short and concise demonstration of our activities and perspectives ta...

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Bibliometric Indicators and Analysis of Research Systems: Methods and Examples (STI Working Paper 1997/1)

This report - linked to the technical OECD manuals for the measurement of R&D activities ("Frascati Family") - presents the essential elements of bibliometrics and its application to the analysis of research systems.

Sustainable Flexibility: A Prospective Study on Work, Family and Society in the Information Age

It is now well accepted that technological development and the globalisation of economies have permanently changed the character of both work and employment in OECD countries. Work in successful enterprises can no longer follow the old industrial...

Measuring R&D in the Services (STI Working Paper 1996/7)

The aim of this paper is to identify the main problems of comparison between countries and over time of the data on R&D performed in the services industries collected by OECD member countries.

Information Technology and the Future of Post-Secondary Education

At the end of this century, post-secondary education faces a triple challenge -- how to provide high quality education and training attuned to the 21st century for all adults who need it and can profit from it in the most cost-effective way. Info...

Measuring What People Know: Human Capital Accounting for the Knowledge Economy (E-book PDF Format)

Is human capital accounting theoretically possible and practically feasible? Economists estimate human capital on the basis of years of schooling or formal educational attainment levels regardless of actual productive capacity. Financial accounting and reporting ignore even these crude measures, leaving human capital off the balance sheet for want of rules or conventions. A review of innovative policies in OECD countries shows that

Venture Capital and Innovation

This report examines ways in which governments can stimulate the supply of venture capital for innovative firms. Proceedings of the 1995 ad hoc meeting of experts on venture capital.

Patent Manual 1994

Using patent data as science and technology indicators.

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