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News & Events
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19-Jun-2008
This publication, forthcoming in July 2008, reviews the strengths and weaknesses of Norway’s innovation system and recommends steps the government could take to foster innovation activity and increase the impact of innovation on the country’s future prosperity and social well-being.
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25-Sep-2007
There is an increasing realisation that innovation has moved to centre stage in economic policy making, and that a co-ordinated, coherent, “whole-of-government” approach is required to foster it and enhance its economic impact. This document provides an up-to-date synthesis of knowledge and understanding developed by the OECD on this subject in recent years, and paves the way for further work in the context of an OECD Innovation Strategy as requested by the 2007 OECD Council Ministerial.
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27-Aug-2007
China needs a better return on its fast-rising investments in research and development (R&D) and higher education if it is to meet its goal of becoming an “innovation-oriented” economy by 2020, according to a new OECD report.
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20-Aug-2007
New Zealand should strengthen its support for research and innovation to boost economic growth, according to a new OECD report.
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21-Jun-2007
This September 2006 workshop, held in Ottawa, Canada, examined best practice examples and identified potential strategies to solve the under-representation of women in SET. Programmes and outcomes were assessed, including lessons that can be learned from current projects and initiatives.
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15-Jun-2007
This new STI Working Paper (2007/4) aims to capture current inventive activities in nanotechnologies based on the analysis of patent applications to the European Patent Office (EPO).
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22-May-2007
This review assesses the governance of Luxembourg’s innovation system and suggests the reforms needed to ensure that additional public investment in R&D will yield the expected economic and social benefits.
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04-Dec-2006
China will this year for the first time spend more on research and development (R&D) than Japan and so become the world’s second highest investor in R&D after the United States, according to OECD projections based on recent trends.
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Events
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from 27-Aug-2007 to 28-Aug-2007
This conference launched the synthesis report of the first OECD review on Chinese national innovation system (NIS). Based on the findings of the synthesis report, a high-level international business symposium took place back-to-back with the conference to address the issue of globalisation of R&D.
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from 29-Nov-2007 to 30-Nov-2007
This conference will consider innovation in the software sector from an economic perspective, taking into account the factors that drive innovation, including key framework conditions.
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from 16-Nov-2005 to 17-Nov-2005
This workshop is part of the OECD's response to this Ministerial mandate and brought together representatives from academia, public sector research and the business community to share experience and draw lessons and recommendations for all stakeholders.
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Editor's Choice
A comprehensive review of key trends in science, technology and innovation policy including statistics on R&D funding, patents, researchers and other indicators of innovative performance.
OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2006
Innovation
Three volumes presenting the results of the OECD "MONIT" Project on monitoring and implementing national innovation policies.
Governance of Innovation Systems
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