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08-Nov-2007
Chile needs to invest more in research and development (R&D), improve its education system, promote public-private partnerships and foster business-sector innovation, notably among small and medium-sized firms, in order to sustain economic growth, according to a new OECD report.
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26-Oct-2007
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría received the first ever "Globalist of the Year" award from the Canadian International Council for his contribution to innovation in global governance and international affairs.
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25-Oct-2007
More and more OECD governments are giving firms tax breaks to drive innovation while cutting their direct spending on business research and development (R&D), and are also encouraging public research organisations to commercialise their inventions, according to a new OECD report.
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12-Oct-2007
This new STI working paper aims at designing simple but robust methods that would enable to forecast the present (or recent past) in order to improve the timeliness of patent indicators.
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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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02-Jul-2007
The brain never loses its capacity to learn, according to a new publication from the OECD. Contrary to the myth that “everything important about the brain is decided by the age of three,” Understanding the Brain: The Birth of a Learning Science suggests not only that learning never stops - especially if actively pursued - but that it physically transforms the brain.
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04-Jun-2007
Governments should work more closely with companies and strengthen enforcement to fight the rising global trade in counterfeit and pirated goods, according to a new OECD report.
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01-Jun-2007
At the Summit, G8 leaders asked the OECD, together with the IEA, to act as a platform for dialogue between G8 countries and the major emerging economies of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa on issues including innovation, freedom of investment, corporate social responsibility and development in Africa, and energy efficiency.
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01-Jun-2007
The burgeoning Open Educational Resources (OER) movement is bringing higher education resources within reach of growing numbers of potential users around the world, but education authorities will soon have to grapple with new challenges such as copyright issues and the sustainability of business models, according to a new OECD study.
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