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25-Jan-2011
This paper provides an account of the main approaches, debates and evidence on the role of workforce skills in the innovation process in developed economies. It draws on multiple sources including the innovation studies discipline, neoclassical human capital theory, institutionalist labour market studies and the work organisation discipline. Extensive use is also made of official survey data to describe and quantify the diversity of skills and occupations involved in specific types of innovation activities.
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Industry: OECD Steel Committee says market remains fluid and challenging
16-Dec-2010
3/12/2010 - The world steel industry is emerging from the worst slowdown in more than half a century although the overall situation remains fluid and challenging, according to industry and government officials at the OECD’s Steel Committee meeting in Paris on 2 -3 December 2010.
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Keeping up investment in science and innovation key to long-term growth, says OECD
14-Dec-2010
The OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2010 reviews trends in science, technology and innovation in OECD countries and major emerging economies. It also provides profiles of the science and innovation performance of each country.
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07-Dec-2010
This book takes stock of current thinking and practice around performance-based funding of public research in tertiary education institutions, as a tool to help governments meet their research goals.
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06-Dec-2010
What are the potential economic impacts of nanotechnology, how are companies using nanotechnology for innovation, and what are the key challenges in its commercialisation? These are some of the questions that this book addresses, based on company case studies in several countries.
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19-Nov-2010
Do employers make the best use of people’s skills for innovation? This new book shows that interaction within organisations - as well as individual and organisational learning and training - are important for innovation. The analytical tools and empirical results this study provides show how some work organisations may foster innovation through the use of employee autonomy and discretion, supported by learning and training opportunities.
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10-Nov-2010
The delivery of sustainable economic growth across multiple disciplines is a high priority on the policy agendas of the OECD member and non-member countries. Reviewing the industrial biotechnology innovation systems of these countries provides an excellent opportunity to evaluate the contribution to sustainable growth of this highly innovative and complex industrial sector. While the bio-based economy-related issues of OECD countries have been largely studied; those of the BRICS countries have not been duly addressed.
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10-Nov-2010
The Workshop brought together policy makers, regulators, academic experts, private and public sector researcher and other interested parties, to discuss the latest biomedical developments such as stem cells and personalized medicine, and consider how to foster more effective health innovation. Participants concluded that there is a need to find new ways to pro-actively respond to biomedicine and health innovation.
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09-Nov-2010
This report covers the analysis of environmental and climate change issues affecting the shipbuilding industry. It suggests and that a more holistic, “whole of life” approach to the production, operation and eventual recycling of ships could produce better environmental outcomes as well as potentially positive commercial outcomes.
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08-Nov-2010
This new OECD project will seek to improve the measurement of intangible assets both at the macro and firm level, analysing their contribution to growth and their relationship to new business models.
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Events
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from 08-Dec-2009 to 10-Dec-2009
The world of electronic commerce has evolved dramatically since 1999, when the OECD issued its first Guidelines for e-Consumer Protection. How effective are they 10 years later? What new opportunities, obstacles and risks face e-consumers? How can consumer trust be strengthened? Senior government officials from OECD and non-member economies, representatives from business, civil society, international organisations, and academics discussed these and related issues at this conference.
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from 04-May-2009 to 05-May-2009
This workshop in Paris focused on collaborative mechanisms such as IP clearing houses, patent pools, model/framework agreements, IP exchanges and auctions, and other forms of innovation partnerships. Several initiatives presented at the workshop have garnered international attention.
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from 14-Sep-2009 to 15-Sep-2009
A key finding from this workshop, held in Paris, was that governments need to align technology-push instruments like grants and incentives for R&D with demand-pull policy instruments such as public procurement and regulations. The discussions and expert presentations provided further insights and examples as to how countries are attempting to implement this in practice.
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from 03-Dec-2009 to 04-Dec-2009
The Workshop gathered OECD members countries and non-member economies, such as Brazil, Romania, Chinese Taipei and Ukraine, as well as industry representatives. The objective was to undertake a fact-finding exercise to assess factors distorting the shipbuilding sector.
Here are the Programme and presentations of the Workshop.
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from 10-Dec-2009 to 11-Dec-2009
The 67th Session of the OECD Steel Committee meeting was held on 10-11 December 2009 at OECD headquarters in Paris. The OECD Steel Committee brings together government and steel industry representatives from all major steel-producing countries to address common challenges.
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While the contribution of innovation to economic growth is well established, there is growing awareness that innovation can be used to address social challenges ranging from urban poverty and education to environmental sustainability that have resisted conventional market and government approaches to solving them.
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from 09-Jul-2009 to 10-Jul-2009
Participants at this meeting considered in depth the impact of the current economic crisis on the world shipbuilding industry. As well as the OECD members, the meeting was attended by Romania as a full participant, and Brazil, China, Russia, Chinese Taipei and Ukraine as ad-hoc observers. Together, the participants accounted for around 95% of world shipbuilding production in 2008. This special item took place during the 108th Session of the OECD’s Council Working Party on Shipbuilding, 9-10 July 2009.
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from 27-May-2009 to 28-May-2009
On 27-28 May 2009, the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation hosted a high-level OECD conference on the potential of information and communication technologies to combat climate change and improve environmental performance. Live webcast and Twitter feed available. Internet users had the possibility to send in questions for speakers.
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from 15-Dec-2008 to 16-Dec-2008
Government and industry representatives meet in Kuala Lumpur on 15/16th December 2008 to review and discuss how the world’s steel industry is coping with the consequences of the financial crisis and what these developments imply for the steel-related raw material markets. By building a broader understanding of the steel-related raw material markets and exploring ways to improve the way they function.
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