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News & Events
News
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18-Nov-2009
OECD and UNITAR will hold Awareness-Raising Workshops for Developing and Transition Countries on Nanotechnology/Manufactured Nanomaterials. These workshops will be held under the auspices of the IOMC following a request for action regarding nanotechnologies and nanomaterials. These workshops will inform on potential applications and risks from nanotechnologies and manufactured nanomaterials and look for opportunities for awareness raising activities to be undertaken in those countries. The workshops will be held in conjunction with SAICM during the UN regional meetings during 2009-2010.
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12-Nov-2009
The recently adopted OECD Recommendation provides guidance on the establishment, management, governance, operation, access, use and discontinuation of HBGRDs. It has been developed to aid policymakers and practitioners who are establishing new HBGRDs, although many of the principles and best practices can also be usefully applied to HBGRDs already in existence.
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06-Nov-2009
The presentations by speakers from the OECD Conference on the Potential Environmental Benefits of Nanotechnology, which was held in Paris in July 2009, are now available for the public. All the conference information is available at this page.
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OECD / IFP Meeting to explore the role of space technologies in food security, on November 6th 2009
02-Nov-2009
The meeting will regroup experts from different organisations and industries to discuss trends and challenges in global food supplies, and examine the potential role of selected space applications. These space applications increasingly include remote sensing (e.g. imagery for agriculture monitoring) but also satellite communications and navigation (e.g. use of GPS supporting fisheries and sea transport). For more information: anita.gibson@oecd.org.
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15-Oct-2009
Policymakers increasingly encounter problems that involve systems composed of very large numbers of diverse interacting parts, prone to surprising, large-scale, seemingly uncontrollable, behaviours. These are what scientists call complex systems. An exciting new field, complexity science has emerged, devoted to understanding, predicting, and influencing the behaviours of complex systems. This report explores the proposition that the insights achieved through scientific analysis can be used to design and implement better governmental policies, programmes, regulations, and infrastructures.
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30-Jul-2009
These indicators bring together the latest available economic and activity data on biotechnology and innovation, collected by OECD member and non-member countries.
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Events
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from 08-Dec-2009 to 10-Dec-2009
The economic crisis has hit the retail sector hard but has actually boosted e-commerce, with more people shopping online, according to a new OECD report. The industry would grow faster still if business and governments did more to tackle the growing challenges of protecting consumers’ rights and privacy and fighting fraud, according to the OECD.
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from 18-Nov-2009 to 20-Nov-2009
An International Expert Meeting on “The school of the future, today – a systemic approach to technology-based school innovations” held in Santa Catarina (Brazil) conjointly with the Secretariat for Education of the State of Santa Catarina and the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation on 18-20 November 2009. (Website in Portuguese)
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OECD Workshop Risk Assessment of Manufactured Nanomaterials in a Regulatory Context
from 16-Sep-2009 to 18-Sep-2009
This workshop was held on 16-18 September 2009 in Washington D.C., United States. This Workshop was co-hosted with the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to OECD (BIAC) and the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA). The objectives were: i) to collect expert input to the critical issues specific for the risk assessments of nanomaterials; ii) to identify possible approaches for risk assessment based on the current state of knowledge; and iii) to identify issues which may be addressed through OECD’s testing programme. The workshop report will be available towards the end of the year.
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OECD Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials: 6th meeting
from 28-Oct-2009 to 30-Oct-2009
The 6th Meeting of the WPMN was held on 28-30 October 2009. During this meeting, the WPMN discussed the targets that need to be set in order to implement the Programme of Work 2009-2012. Accordingly, the WPMN agreed the updated Operational Plans for 2009-2012 for each of its projects and a new project on Co-operation on the Environmental Sustainability Use of Nanotechnology. Finally, the WPMN discussed how to continue progress on the Sponsorship Programme for the Testing of Manufactured Nanomaterials .
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from 09-Nov-2009 to 10-Nov-2009
While the contribution of innovation to economic growth is well established, there is growing awareness that innovation can be used to address social challenges from urban poverty, education, to environmental sustainability that have resisted conventional market and government approaches to solving them. For further information, please contact: mario.cervantes@oecd.org.
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from 21-Sep-2009 to 23-Sep-2009
This International Conference jointly organised by the OECD and the Flemish Ministry of Education took place at the Flemish Ministry of Education & Training in Brussels.
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from 10-Sep-2009 to 11-Sep-2009
Information communication technologies (ICTs) are crucial to reducing poverty, improving access to health and education services and creating new sources of income and employment for the poor. But there are substantial discrepancies in access to ICTs between, but also within, countries, depending on key factors such as gender, rural coverage, skills and educational levels. This workshop, organised jointly by the World Bank/infoDev and the OECD, aimed to share best practices in coherent approaches to meeting development objectives laid out by Ministers.
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OECD Workshop on Demand-Led Innovation Policies
from 14-Sep-2009 to 15-Sep-2009
The OECD Workshop on Demand-led Innovation Policies will be held on 14-15 September 2009 at the OECD Headquarters in Paris.
The aim of this workshop is thus to exchange views and draw lessons from a range of demand-side innovation policies, including public procurement, regulations, standards and lead markets.
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from 16-Jul-2009 to 17-Jul-2009
INNO-tec and the OECD, with the support of the Strike network, are organizing an EPIP conference on Trademarks and Trademark data. The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss current work and analyses conducted on trademarks from various perspectives, so as to better understand their functioning and their effect on firms and markets.
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