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01-Apr-2009
This working paper analyses results of a business survey on the licensing-out of patents. The goal was to investigate the intensity of licensing to affiliated and non-affiliated companies, its evolution, the characteristics, motivations and obstacles met by companies licensing or willing to license.
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16-Feb-2009
Patent data are an outstanding resource for the study of technical change. Just published, this manual provides guiding principles for the use of patent data in S&T measurement, and recommendations for the compilation and interpretation of patent indicators in this context.
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24-Mar-2009
This publication reports on steelmaking capacity on an economy-by-economy, plant or project basis and likely changes up to 2010. It includes detailed tables on existing capacity and equipment, the starting date of planned projects, works ownership and the information sources used. It also briefly describes projects' progress, recent changes at existing works, and, where known, the financing of projects.
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20-Mar-2009
This document focuses on efforts in the United States to develop metrics to support sound decision choices by industry and consumers in the selection and use of biobased products. Public policy initiatives have been important in spurring the movement toward increased use of biobased products in the effort to lighten the US environmental footprint and enhance its energy security. This has included developing metrics based on sound science that also provide useful information to inform consumer selections of biobased products.
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09-Mar-2009
Consumers today are challenged by growing amounts of information and wider choices of products. To make good choices in increasingly complex markets, they must develop a greater range of skills and knowledge. This new book examines the approaches that governments use to promote consumer education in OECD and some non-OECD countries, highlighting the policies and measures that have been particularly effective.
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02-Mar-2009
This new working paper discusses the challenges faced when attempting to construct appropriate bilateral trade matrices using annual data collected by the OECD and United Nations, as well as national sources.
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02-Mar-2009
Conclusions of a recent seminar held at the OECD to examine national experiences and how innovation policies can be deployed in support of a recovery.
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25-Feb-2009
Scientific collections are essential components of research infrastructures. They are critical to many areas of science, and allow scientists to address global interdisciplinary issues such as climate change. This report presents the findings and recommendations from two workshops, held in the Netherlands and the United States in 2007 and 2008, regarding the maintenance, utilisation and international coordination of scientific research collections. A follow up activity is now underway under the aegis of the GSF to develop a sustainable plan for a future international coordinating mechanism.
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12-Feb-2009
The new edition of OECD Input-Output database is available and includes 4 new countries. It is a useful empirical tool for economic research and structural analysis at international level. It highlights inter-industrial relationships and when used in conjunction with other OECD databases such as STAN Industry, Bilateral Trade Database (BTD) and Business R&D Expenditures (ANBERD), it provides a tool for consistent economic analysis of growth, structural change, productivity, competitiveness and employment at the sectoral and macroeconomic levels.
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03-Feb-2009
This working paper forms part of the first phase of work on the OECD Innovation Strategy. It draws on OECD work from the last 10 years to provide a broad overview of “what we know” about good policy practices for innovation.
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