Open Innovation in Global Networks

07-Oct-2008

Businesses are increasingly internationalising their innovation activities and working with external partners. This new publication examines what drives companies to collaborate on R&D with international partners and how global networks fit into overall business strategies.

OECD Compendium of Patent Statistics 2008

12-Sep-2008

This document provides a snapshot of the latest available internationally comparable data on patents. The indicators presented are specifically designed to reflect recent trends in inventive activities across a wide range of OECD member and non-member countries.

Research and Development: Going Global (Policy Brief)

04-Aug-2008

The unprecedented pace and scale of today’s globalisation process
has attracted much attention in recent years. Globalisation is having a
particularly large impact on innovation. The scope for global collaboration
is increasing as more of the world’s regions possess important research and
innovation capabilities. So while the United States, the European Union and
Japan have so far been the leaders in this respect, countries such as China
and India have a growing research and innovation capacity.

Report on Mathematics in Industry

16-Jul-2008

The Workshop on Mathematics in Industry, held on 22-24 March 2007 in Heidelberg, brought together mathematicians, representatives of industry, and officials of science funding agencies to examine the relationship between the mathematical sciences and industry in the participating countries. The final report contains analyses and findings emphasising the significant (and largely unrealised) potential of applying advanced mathematics to modern industrial problems.  Mechanisms of proven efficacy are described, for implementation by universities, institutes, companies and government agencies.

Presentation of the OECD "REGPAT" database

06-Jun-2008

This database presents patent data linked to regions according to the addresses of the applicants and inventors. The data have been regionalised at a very detailed level so that over 2000 regions are covered across OECD countries. REGPAT allows patent data to be used in connection with other regional data, thus providing researchers with the means to develop a rich set of new indicators and undertake a broad range of analyses to address the regional dimension of innovation.

Report of the Working Group on Nuclear Physics

20-May-2008

Progress in Nuclear Physics should be a global response to recognized scientific challenges, using an optimal set of national and regional facilities. To achieve this, funding agency programme managers, laboratory officials, representatives of advisory bodies, and the scientific community met to discuss the future of the field.  Their report identifies the major challenges in the field, and describes a global-scale roadmap of national and regional facilities. Recommendations for actions are addressed to the funding agencies and to the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

Workshop on Enhancing Research Performance through Evaluation and Priority Setting

from 15-Sep-2008 to 16-Sep-2008

How can OECD countries design, implement and use evaluations to improve research quality and impacts? How can they improve the ways through which they identify and set priorities for public support to research and innovation?  This two-day workshop brought together practitioners and experts to explore new developments in evaluation for  policy making and to identify general principles and practices for priority setting. 

Second Workshop on Policy Issues Related to Scientific Research Collections

from 17-Jul-2008 to 18-Jul-2008

Building on the findings and recommendations of a first workshop hosted by the Netherlands in 2007, the objective of this second event will be to determine the potential need and value of a new mechanism for the international coordination of scientific research collections.

Draft agenda .

Conference on Patent Statistics for Policy Decision-making

from 03-Sep-2008 to 04-Sep-2008

Organised by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the OECD, the goal of this conference was to reflect recent advances in the area of analysis with patent statistics.

OECD Workshop on “Assessing the Socio-Economic Impacts of Public R&D”, Paris

on 11-Jun-2008

OECD countries are investing more and more in R&D and innovation. What are the impacts of these public investments on the economy and society? What tools do governments have to assess such impacts and how robust are they? How to measure the non-economic impacts?  This one-day workshop, under the auspices of the OECD’s Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy (TIP), will bring together academic experts and policy makers to address these questions and identify good practices for impact assessment.

Ask the economists: Internet and development - towards a Wider World Web?

on 21-Feb-2008

What benefits would the Internet bring to the developing world? And what impact would the arrival of several billion new users have on the Internet as we know it today? Click here to read the questions and answers from this online debate with OECD economist Sam Paltridge.

Best Practices for Ensuring Scientific Integrity and Preventing Misconduct

from 22-Feb-2007 to 23-Feb-2007

Scientific misconduct (such as fabrication, falsification, plagiarism) damages the scientific enterprise, constitutes misuse of public funds, and weakens the trust of citizens in science and in government. The OECD Global Science Forum held a workshop to explore ways of dealing with allegations of misconduct, and to extract lessons learned and good practices.  The OECD report on best practices can be downloaded below. 
GSF report on Best practices / Workshop annotated agenda / Workshop presentations .

Workshop on Policy Issues Related to Scientific Research Collections

from 11-Jun-2007 to 13-Jun-2007

Although the value and importance of large scientific research collection facilities are increasingly recognised, they face common problems linked to their historical structure, increasing demand for access, and needs for changes to their operation.  The Global Science Forum held a workshop in Leiden (The Netherlands) in June 2007 to address current political, organisational, technological and financial issues and bottlenecks faced by these scientific collections, and their international implications.

Workshop on the International Mobility of Researchers

on 28-Mar-2007

This workshop covered topics such as policy options for enhancing the international mobility of researchers and mechanisms to build research capacity in both OECD countries and non-member economies. Workshop presentations are available on line.

Report from the Conference on Scientific Challenges for Energy Research

from 17-May-2006 to 18-May-2006

The OECD Global Science Forum (GSF) Conference on Scientific Challenges for Energy Research was held on 17-18 May 2006 at the French Ministry of Research in Paris. The conference addressed the scientific and technological challenges of a sustainable, mid-21st century energy system.

Joint OECD-Spanish Government Workshop on Researcher Careers, Madrid (Spain)

from 26-Apr-2006 to 27-Apr-2006

This one and a half day workshop will aim to address key issues on researcher careers: What is the emerging face of researcher careers for the 21st century? Can we identify different models cross nationally? How are researcher careers changing and do they remain attractive options for S&T graduates?