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Untangling intangible assets

09-Sep-2011

Assets you cannot touch lie behind successful innovations, from the iPhone to Airbus and even designer furniture. What are they and how can policy make a difference? This OECD Observer article untangles these "intangibles".

CERI Conference visit reports

28-Jun-2011

CERI analysts and experts are invited all over the world to participate in conferences and to present their work. This section highlights reports back from some of the most interesting missions.

OECD Review of Innovation Policy: Russian Federation

07-Jun-2011

This new publication examines Russia's innovation performance and the factors that shape it, with particular attention to the role of government policy. Taking Russia's modernisation agenda as its starting point, it identifies the strengths and weaknesses of Russia’s innovation system.

Just published: Demand-Side Innovation Policies

30-May-2011

This book examines dynamics between demand and innovation and provides insights into the rationale and scope for public policies to foster demand for innovation. Drawing on country experience and case studies, it illustrates good practices for designing, implementing and evaluating demand-side innovation policies.

Innovative Teaching for Effective Learning

27-May-2011

This new CERI project Innovative Teaching for Effective Learning (ITEL) is conceived as a future-oriented and innovation-focused contribution to OECD’s work on teachers and teaching. It focuses on the pedagogical knowledge base and competences of teachers and how they should be redefined to be in line with recent developments in understanding effective learning.

Attractiveness for Innovation: Location Factors for International Investment

19-Apr-2011

This new book analyses the current trends in international investment in innovation and the attractiveness policies already implemented. The report also explores in more detail the role of investment incentives that governments tend to give to international investors.

Skills for Innovation and Research

14-Mar-2011

Skilled people play a crucial role in innovation through the new knowledge they generate, how they adopt and develop existing ideas, and their ability to learn new competencies and adapt to a changing environment. This new book seeks to increase understanding of the links between skills and innovation, and presents data and evidence on countries' stocks and flows of skills and the links between skill inputs and innovation outputs.

CERI in-depth Evaluation Expert Panel report

16-Feb-2011

The in-depth Evaluation (IDE) of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) was conducted in parallel to that of the Education Policy Committee (EDPC), as part of the OECD’s internal process for evaluating the work of its committees and programmes to which they are linked.

Workforce skills and innovation: An overview of the major themes in the literature

25-Jan-2011

This paper provides an account of the main approaches, debates and evidence on the role of workforce skills in the innovation process in developed economies. It draws on multiple sources including the innovation studies discipline, neoclassical human capital theory, institutionalist labour market studies and the work organisation discipline. Extensive use is also made of official survey data to describe and quantify the diversity of skills and occupations involved in specific types of innovation activities.

Innovative Workplaces: Making Better Use of Skills within Organisations

14-Dec-2010

This book shows how interaction within organisations, as well as individual and organisational learning and training, are important for innovation. It will interest policy makers in education, employment and innovation as well as business leaders and academics.


Events

Teacher Education for Diversity Survey

from 17-Nov-2008 to 17-Dec-2008

The survey provides a voice to teachers, student teachers, and teacher educators in 30 countries and is an opportunity to influence education policy and programmes. It asks about your preparation for diversity in the classroom, your biggest challenges, and what you think are the most effective strategies.

Joint OECD-World Bank Conference on Innovation and Sustainable Growth in a Globalised World

from 18-Nov-2008 to 19-Nov-2008

Innovation is crucial to long-term economic growth. Making innovation-driven growth happen requires action on a wide range of policy areas, from education and science and technology to product and labour markets and trade. OECD and the World Bank are joining forces to work more closely on innovation, particularly insofar as this issue is a crucial factor in the success of development policy, notably in middle income market economies.

Trends Shaping Education

Education is influenced by the world we live in. The new OECD book "Trends Shaping Education" looks at specific impacts on schooling of things happening elsewhere in our lives, from climate change and the growth of the Internet to changing lifestyles and family structures. Does the diversification of family forms mean a changing balance of responsibilities between the school and the home? And what is the impact on schooling of other phenomena, from the rise of obesity to the spread of mobile phones?

CERI Expert Meeting: Return to Gender: Gender, ICT and Education

from 02-Jun-2008 to 03-Jun-2008

As part of the New Millennium Learners Project (NML), the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), together with the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research organised an Expert Meeting on Gender, ICT and Education on 2-3 June in Oslo, Norway.

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-France Seminar - The labour market orientation of tertiary education in France and in OECD countries: Assessment and prospects

from 14-Feb-2007 to 15-Feb-2007

This seminar proposes to take stock of the labour market orientation of tertiary education in France and in OECD countries.

International Japan/OECD Seminar on “Futures Thinking for Education: Policy, Leadership and the Teaching Profession”

from 06-Nov-2006 to 08-Oct-2006

This Seminar is in the core CERI work on futures thinking and the Schooling for Tomorrow project. The Seminar will explore and develop as the over-arching seminar theme the connections between futures thinking, on the one hand, and governance, policy formulation and decision-making in education, on the other.

Global Forum on Education - The Challenges for Education in a Global Economy

from 24-Oct-2005 to 25-Oct-2005

The first Forum on the theme of The Challenges for Education in a Global Economy, co-hosted with the Chilean Ministry of Education, was held in Santiago on 24-25 October 2005. This event drew on the networks of education officials and experts established since 1991 through the Directorate for Education’s Programme for Co-operation with non OECD Economies.

Orthographes transparentes vs non-transparentes et apprentissage de la lecture : un atelier OCDE

from 29-Sep-2005 to 30-Sep-2005

Cet atelier été réservé aux experts invités à St John’s College, Cambridge, les 29 et 30 septembre 2005. Il été co-organisé par le Centre des Neurosciences en Éducation de l’Université de Cambridge.

OECD Workshop on Learning to Read: Shallow vs Non-Shallow Orthographies

from 29-Sep-2005 to 30-Sep-2005

This OECD workshop was held at St John's College, Cambridge, on 29-30 September 2005 and was co-hosted by the Centre for Neuroscience in Education at Cambridge University.



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