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News & Events
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23-Jan-2009
This report on the shipbuilding industry in China is one in a series of such reports intended to provide an insight into the shipbuilding sectors of both OECD members and non-OECD economies. It benefited from detailed comments provided by the China Shipbuilding Economy Research Center.
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23-Jan-2009
This report on the shipbuilding industry in Vietnam is one in a series of such reports intended to provide an insight into the shipbuilding sectors of both OECD members and non-OECD economies. The report was prepared with the assistance of Vinashin (the Vietnamese State Shipbuilding Corporation), which provided detailed comments.
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23-Jan-2009
Players in communication markets are no longer the traditional alternative operators providing voice services, but a range of service providers including Internet Service Providers and cable television service providers who provide VoIP services and broadband access. This paper assembles some evidence on developments in investment by incumbent and alternative telecommunications operators during the period 2000-2005.
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16-Jan-2009
This working paper discusses actors and resources in China's science and innovation system, science and technology performance, and general purpose technologies. It provided input to the recently published OECD Review of China's Innovation Policy. The annex to this paper assesses international comparability of China's S&T indicators.
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24-Dec-2008
Increasingly, the scientific and policymaking communities are collaborating in the preparation of roadmaps of large research infrastructures: strategic planning documents that identify, analyse and prioritise options for new projects. The OECD report is based on an examination of some twenty recent roadmaps. It focuses on the process through which they were prepared, and identifies key considerations and good practices that deserve the attention of anyone who is contemplating the undertaking of a new roadmapping exercise.
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22-Dec-2008
The economic downturn will hit the Internet economy hard in 2009, according to the latest available OECD estimates. The IT Outlook 2008 says that the IT industry is likely to have grown by 4% at most in 2008 compared to the previous year. But with the outlook for the global economy worsening and business and consumer confidence plumetting, growth will remain flat or decline in 2009.
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17-Dec-2008
This new working paper presents various indicators using existing data on R&D investments, innovation survey data, patent data and data on licensing, illustrating the increasing importance and the different characteristics of open innovation across companies, industries and countries.
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17-Dec-2008
New STAN tables have been added. The December 2008 version provides data for 26 countries, of which 12 with time series up to 2007. Tables for other countries will be added as they become available.
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12-Dec-2008
Initiated by the Global Science Forum, the Global Earthquake Model (GEM), is scheduled to open in February 2009 in Pavia, Italy. GEM aims to build an open worldwide standard for calculating and communicating earthquake risk. This online tool will compute the likelihood of an earthquake, forecast the resulting losses in lives and property, and enable users to evaluate the benefit of building code enforcement and insurance coverage in any location.
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02-Dec-2008
This new working paper reflects an initial analysis employing a pioneering new OECD database. It is among the first systematic attempts to analyse comparatively the distribution of innovative activity across regions in OECD economies with a set of homogenous measures for both input and output in the process of knowledge production and dissemination.
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