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22-Jun-2011
The report examines the use of fibre to provide local access networks for the provision of broadband access. Countries across the OECD are adopting different approaches to stimulate investment and to define the terms of competition to end-users in a fibre to the home or building world.
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15-Jun-2011
The OECD’s draft Recommendation offers principles to help design sustainability assessment methodologies of bio-based products and intermediates. This Recommendation is targeted at those involved with innovation in the bio-based industries, and particularly at those involved in evaluating the impact of bio-based products in terms of their environmental, economic and social sustainability. Public comments are invited before 29 July 2011.
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08-Jun-2011
Regulators and policy makers should boost competition among mobile telephone operators to cut the high prices being charged for international data roaming, according to this new report. Analysis of pricing plans at 68 operators in the 34 OECD countries points to a strong case for new consumer protection and empowerment measures.
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08-Jun-2011
Regulators and policy makers should boost competition among mobile telephone operators to cut the high prices being charged for international data roaming, according to a new OECD report. Analysis of pricing plans at 68 operators in the 34 OECD countries points to a strong case for new consumer protection and empowerment measures.
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07-Jun-2011
This new publication examines Russia's innovation performance and the factors that shape it, with particular attention to the role of government policy. Taking Russia's modernisation agenda as its starting point, it identifies the strengths and weaknesses of Russia’s innovation system.
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30-May-2011
This book examines dynamics between demand and innovation and provides insights into the rationale and scope for public policies to foster demand for innovation. Drawing on country experience and case studies, it illustrates good practices for designing, implementing and evaluating demand-side innovation policies.
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05-May-2011
This report highlights a number of important initiatives under the Recommendation including the launch of a new global network (GPEN), the collection of national contact points and domestic improvements for privacy authorities, while also noting a number of continuing challenges.
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22-Apr-2011
This paper reports on a roundtable held on 1 December 2010 that explored the recent transformation in the ways that personal data is gathered and used to generate economic and social value, along with parallel growth in a privacy profession to protect it.
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19-Apr-2011
This new book analyses the current trends in international investment in innovation and the attractiveness policies already implemented. The report also explores in more detail the role of investment incentives that governments tend to give to international investors.
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13-Apr-2011
The Working Group’s final report contains a strategic vision of needed large research infrastructures, reflecting the perspectives of agency officials, laboratory administrators, and scientists. It incorporates considerations of cost, schedule, human resources, benefits to society, and the prospects for international cooperation. The findings and recommendations in the report are addressed to governmental funding agencies and to the scientific community.
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Events
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from 12-May-2011 to 13-May-2011
The 70th Session of the OECD Steel Committee took place in Paris on 12-13 May 2011.
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from 03-Dec-2009 to 04-Dec-2009
This workshop, which was attended by non-OECD economies and industry, addressed market distorting factors from the perspective of the proposed OECD Shipbuilding Agreement. Documents and presentations are available here.
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on 15-Apr-2011
Innovative online payments services has increasingly been offered to consumers in recent years. Financial and non-financial institutions are now working towards the commercialisation of new and easy-to-use mobile payment systems. Despite the benefits and convenience these systems may bring, a number of issues need to be resolved. An OECD workshop served to discuss emerging challenges in the payments area and ways to address them effectively. The event was organised within the framework of the review of the 1999 E-commerce Guidelines.
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from 15-Feb-2011 to 16-Feb-2011
This workshop reviewed how new high-speed and mobile applications, connected devices, social networks, and related cutting-edge smart technological developments can provide unprecedented opportunities for developing an environment and services that can help address the health and wellness challenges of our ageing society, stimulating collaboration and innovation on a global scale.
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from 02-Dec-2010 to 03-Dec-2010
The 69th Session of the OECD Steel Committee meeting was held on 2-3 December 2010 at the OECD Headquarters in Paris. The presentations at the meeting can be found here.
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from 06-Dec-2010 to 07-Dec-2010
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in partnership with the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Genomics Network (EGN) will host a major Forum on 6-7 December 2010 at the OECD Headquarters in Paris. This Forum will review how knowledge in the life sciences is governed, shared, regulated and managed, and to explore new linkages between the life sciences and information and communication technologies.
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on 29-Sep-2010
“Smart” ICTs can play a key role in addressing the green growth challenge in energy, transport and water management. The OECD held a technology foresight forum in Paris to discuss environmental opportunities, existing barriers and some potential risks to the wider roll-out of smart infrastructures. The website has the online webcast, presentations and an analytical background report for download.
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on 25-Oct-2010
This workshop aimed to identify opportunities and challenges for funding and performing breakthrough research in the public as well as the business sector, and to identify good practices for the diffusion of breakthrough green technology and innovation.
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on 22-Sep-2010
This workshop reviewed OECD and World Bank work on global production networks and promoted concrete policy options for an employment-based recovery and trade-led growth. Invited speakers from a broad range of institutions, including from emerging economies, presented their findings and participated in the discussions.
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from 27-Sep-2010 to 28-Sep-2010
This workshop, to be held in Berlin, will bring together policy makers, researchers, clinicians and the private sector to discuss challenges in the governance of biomedical innovation. It will aim to help governments identify emerging issues and understand how their actions at local and international levels can help deliver biomedical innovation to achieve better health outcomes. It will provide a forum to compare and contrast the new governance and regulatory models that are emerging across the OECD area and elsewhere.
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