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05-Aug-2011
A timely set of indicators that reflect the level and structure of the efforts undertaken by OECD member countries and selected non-member economies in the field of science and technology.
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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.
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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.
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Successful workshop on the possible socio-economic contributions of space applications
23-Dec-2010
The Space Forum's Working Group met on Sept. 25th 2010 on the theme “Valuing the socio economic contributions of space applications: techniques and lessons learned”. This original workshop feeds into the OECD Secretariat analysis of potential socio economic contributions derived from space applications. Thirty participants coming from agencies, the private sector, academia and national delegations benefitted from presentations by invited experts (P. Cohendet, I. Leveson, M. Macauley, G. Graziola, H. Hertzfeld) and by the Secretariat.
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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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07-Dec-2010
This book takes stock of current thinking and practice around performance-based funding of public research in tertiary education institutions, as a tool to help governments meet their research goals.
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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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Events
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on 25-Oct-2010
This workshop aimed to identify opportunities and challenges for funding and performing breakthrough research in the public as well as the business sector, and to identify good practices for the diffusion of breakthrough green technology and innovation.
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from 27-Sep-2010 to 28-Sep-2010
This workshop, to be held in Berlin, will bring together policy makers, researchers, clinicians and the private sector to discuss challenges in the governance of biomedical innovation. It will aim to help governments identify emerging issues and understand how their actions at local and international levels can help deliver biomedical innovation to achieve better health outcomes. It will provide a forum to compare and contrast the new governance and regulatory models that are emerging across the OECD area and elsewhere.
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from 28-Oct-2010 to 29-Oct-2010
The delivery of sustainable economic growth across multiple disciplines is a high priority on the policy agendas of the OECD member and non-member countries. Reviewing the industrial biotechnology innovation systems of these countries provides an excellent opportunity to evaluate the contribution to sustainable growth of this highly innovative and complex industrial sector.
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Le secteur spatial pendant la crise économique: présentation lors du "Toulouse Space Show"
from 09-Jun-2010 to 10-Jun-2010
Le Programme de l'OCDE sur l'Avenir présentera des statistiques récentes sur le secteur spatial lors du "Toulouse Space Show", un grand congrès organisé par la communauté spatiale tous les deux ans.
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The space sector during the economic crisis: trends to be presented at the Toulouse Space Show
from 09-Jun-2010 to 10-Jun-2010
The OECD/IFP will present recent statistics and trends on the space sector during the "Toulouse Space Show", a large congress organised every two years in Toulouse by the space community.
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Rencontre entre économistes et spécialistes sur les statistiques du secteur spatial (mars 2010)
La 4ème réunion du Comité Technique sur "l'économie spatiale" (Technical Committee on the Space Economy) a eu lieu le 23 mars 2010 à Paris, dans le cadre des rencontres de printemps de la Fédération Astronautique Internationale (IAF). Ce comité réunit biannuellement des économistes et experts du secteur, dont le Programme de l'OCDE sur l'Avenir, pour comparer des pratiques nationales et privées dans la collecte de données économiques du secteur spatial. Une session sur ce thème aura lieu lors du grand congrès annuel de l'IAF à Prague, fin septembre 2010.
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from 16-Sep-2010 to 17-Sep-2010
The overall goal of the workshop is to understand the framework conditions that govern innovation in environmental biotechnology with a view to identifying and addressing inefficiencies. Workshop participants will include experts from industry, government, academia and international organisations, and non-governmental organisations.
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from 14-Sep-2009 to 15-Sep-2009
A key finding from this workshop, held in Paris, was that governments need to align technology-push instruments like grants and incentives for R&D with demand-pull policy instruments such as public procurement and regulations. The discussions and expert presentations provided further insights and examples as to how countries are attempting to implement this in practice.
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