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29-Feb-2008
This information sheet provides a brief introduction to the purpose and activities of the OECD’s Council Working Party on Shipbuilding (WP6), with particular focus on its co-operation with non-OECD economies with significant shipbuilding industries.
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29-Feb-2008
This Sector Understanding sets common rules for government supported export credits for ships, in particular concerning interest rates and the duration of credits. The latest update of the SSU came into force in July 2008.
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24-Jan-2008
The increasing deployment of RFID brings significant economic promise. But is RFID sufficiently secure and privacy-friendly? This report clarifies the capabilities and limitations of RFID, identifies the information security and privacy challenges it can raise, and suggests measures and safeguards that can be implemented to address them.
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OECD Steel Committee says market remains strong but growing risks cloud outlook
05-Dec-2007
The global steel market is in its sixth year of strong output and demand growth. But the outlook for 2008 is less buoyant amid weaker prospects for global economic growth, according to industry and government officials at the OECD’s Steel Committee meeting in Paris on 3-4 December 2007.
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08-Nov-2007
Chile needs to invest more in research and development (R&D), improve its education system, promote public-private partnerships and foster business-sector innovation, notably among small and medium-sized firms, in order to sustain economic growth, according to a new OECD report.
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OECD countries take new approach to fostering innovation, says OECD report
25-Oct-2007
More and more OECD governments are giving firms tax breaks to drive innovation while cutting their direct spending on business research and development (R&D), and are also encouraging public research organisations to commercialise their inventions, according to a new OECD report.
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OECD conference on how the web is changing our lives, our economy, our opportunities – and what comes next: 3 October 2007, Ottawa, Canada
19-Sep-2007
Leading experts and thinkers from some of the world’s top corporations and research institutes will set out their vision of the next-generation Internet, its enhanced interactivity, and how users, business, scientists and citizen groups will exploit its new possibilities.
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Further reforms would boost innovation in China, says OECD
27-Aug-2007
China needs a better return on its fast-rising investments in research and development (R&D) and higher education if it is to meet its goal of becoming an “innovation-oriented” economy by 2020, according to a new OECD report.
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New Zealand should strengthen its policies to foster innovation, says OECD
20-Aug-2007
New Zealand should strengthen its support for research and innovation to boost economic growth, according to a new OECD report.
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Telecoms advances throw up new challenges for operators, says OECD
12-Jul-2007
Telecommunications investment continues to rise and consumers are generally paying less for more and better services across the OECD area but technology developments are presenting new challenges to telecoms operators, according to a new OECD report.
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