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News & Events
News
Keeping up investment in science and innovation key to long-term growth, says OECD
14-Dec-2010
The OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2010 reviews trends in science, technology and innovation in OECD countries and major emerging economies. It also provides profiles of the science and innovation performance of each country.
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06-Dec-2010
What are the potential economic impacts of nanotechnology, how are companies using nanotechnology for innovation, and what are the key challenges in its commercialisation? These are some of the questions that this book addresses, based on company case studies in several countries.
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08-Nov-2010
This new OECD project will seek to improve the measurement of intangible assets both at the macro and firm level, analysing their contribution to growth and their relationship to new business models.
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08-Oct-2010
This report addresses challenges in assessing the social outcomes of learning by providing a synthesis of the existing evidence, original data analyses and policy discussions.
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08-Oct-2010
What do we know about how people learn? How do young people’s motivations and emotions influence their learning? What does research show to be the benefits of group work, formative assessments, technology applications, or project-based learning and when are they most effective?
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30-Jul-2010
How best can planners and policy makers use research results on social capital, education and health to better inform policymaking? Should social capital be fostered at the community level, or through incentives to individuals? Does social capital improve community health,? What lessons can be learned?
Read more: Social Outcomes of Learning
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29-Apr-2010
Faced with unprecedented levels of unemployment, unsustainable fiscal deficits and public debt and low economic growth, governments need to focus on innovation and pro-green policies as potential new sources of growth, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría told a meeting of heads of international organizations convened by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.
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15-Dec-2009
Innovation is crucial to long-term economic growth, even more so in the aftermath of the financial and economic crisis. In this book, the OECD and the World Bank jointly take stock of how globalisation is posing new challenges for innovation and growth in both developed and developing countries, and how countries are coping with them.
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Events
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from 20-Oct-2005 to 22-Oct-2005
This conference addressed four questions: What intellectual assets create value in the knowledge economy? How can we do a better job of measuring and identifying the impact of intellectual assets, such as R&D, patents, brands, software and human capital? Should we improve reporting on intellectual assets and their added value? What policies can foster the development of intellectual assets and facilitate their exploitation?
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from 14-Sep-2005 to 15-Sep-2005
On 14 and 15 September 2005, the third OECD-conference on Evidence Based Policy Research took place in The Hague, Netherlands. The conference explored how bridges can be built between researchers, policy makers and educational practitioners by using evidence based research to improve policy making. Focus was on the role of brokerage agencies (i.e., institutions, programmes, or other mechanisms) designed to improve linkages between research and policy concerns and act as bridges in a national or international context (for example, the EPPI-Centre in the UK).
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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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from 26-Jun-2005 to 28-Jun-2005
The OECD/Canada/Alberta Conference on E-Learning in Post-Secondary Education: Policies, Practices, and Research was held in Calgary, Canada, 26-28 June, 2005. The conference, jointly organised by the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) , Industry Canada, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, and Alberta Advanced Education , was intended to: discuss key policy issues in e-learning in post-secondary education; provide a forum for sharing good practices and challenges, and identify opportunities for research and collaboration.
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Third Meeting of the Lifelong Learning Network
from 21-Jan-2005 to 22-Feb-2005
The 3rd meeting of the Lifelong Learning network of OECD/CERI’s Learning Sciences and Brain Research project took place at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Wako-Shi, Saitama, Japan on 21-22 January 2005. The meeting brought together some 30 experts, mixing neuroscience and educational researchers with a few practitioners and policymakers. Participants were present from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, UK and USA.
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