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News & Events
News
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09-Sep-2011
Assets you cannot touch lie behind successful innovations, from the iPhone to Airbus and even designer furniture. What are they and how can policy make a difference? This OECD Observer article untangles these "intangibles".
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08-Sep-2011
This report on the shipbuilding industry in Turkey is one of a series studies covering various OECD countries and non-OECD economies, and has been prepared to inform OECD’s Council Working Party on Shipbuilding (WP6) on the status and future prospects of that industry. This report is the first to cover an OECD member country.
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23-Aug-2011
This working paper aims to assess the openness of the Japanese economy and show how policies promoting openness are conducive to long-term growth.
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Draft Recommendation for Assessing the Sustainability of Bio-based Products
11-Aug-2011
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) invited the public to a consultation on the draft Recommendation for Assessing the Sustainability of Bio-based Products.
All comments received will be collated and analysed. The Recommendation will continue to be revised through expert meetings at which the comments received via the public consultation will be considered as well as additional comments provided by experts and the OECD member countries representatives. The Recommendation is expected to be made public in its final form in 2012.
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05-Aug-2011
This guide provides the statistical definitions, classifications and methods to measure and compare the information society across countries. It provides a standard reference for statisticians, analysts and policy-makers in the field. In particular, the guide should assist countries that want to start or develop new statistical programmes to measure the information society.
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05-Aug-2011
A timely set of indicators that reflect the level and structure of the efforts undertaken by OECD member countries and selected non-member economies in the field of science and technology.
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04-Jul-2011
This report provides an overview of the potential benefits but also limitations of virtual worlds for enhancing collaboration, creativity, and learning across society. It analyses to what extent virtual worlds provide platforms for new and experimental interactions and can thus be considered a catalyst behind the changing nature of innovation, as discussed in particular in the OECD Innovation Strategy. The report also examines the main drivers as well as barriers and challenges for the diffusion of virtual worlds.
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29-Jun-2011
OECD governments and other stakeholders have created a new framework to promote a more transparent, open Internet at a two-day meeting in Paris. The new principles, agreed by OECD member governments, business representatives and technical experts, aim to advance the debate on Internet governance. They underline the benefits that today’s light-touch, flexible regulation has brought in driving innovation and economic growth.
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22-Jun-2011
This report examines broadband plans across the OECD area, providing an overview of common elements and goals in those plans. An annex to this report contains references and links to the plans.
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22-Jun-2011
This report focuses on developments in broadband market structures emerging from the deployment of high-speed broadband services and the policy and regulatory implications. The aim is to underline good practices for policy and regulation. An annex contains selected country descriptions and background information drawn on for this report.
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Events
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on 25-Oct-2011
This OECD workshop will examine how governments, industry and other stakeholders are addressing certain consumer problems in communication services, with a focus on billing issues, contract terms, and misleading or fraudulent claims.
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from 07-Jul-2011 to 08-Jul-2011
This workshop, which was attended by non-OECD economies and industry, considered best practices applied in shipbuilding to address environmental, climate change and sustainable development issues. Documents and presentations are available here.
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from 28-Jun-2011 to 29-Jun-2011
The aim of this meeting is to reach a consensus on how best to ensure the continued growth and innovation of the Internet economy. The meeting follows up on the OECD Ministerial Meeting on The Future of the Internet Economy held in June 2008 and the Seoul Declaration adopted at that meeting.
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from 19-May-2011 to 20-May-2011
The presentations made during the meeting of the Working Party on Globalisation of Industry (WPGI) are available here.
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from 16-May-2011 to 17-May-2011
This conference in Washington, DC, aimed to raise public awareness about the growing importance of intangibles in driving economic growth and provide a roadmap for identification of key research and policy areas that can help governments and businesses develop growth strategies that adopt a broad concept of innovation and thereby better utilise intangible assets.
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