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01-Dec-2010
The Volumes 3 and 4 on "Safety Assessment of Transgenic Organisms: OECD Consensus Documents" are now available. They compile documents issued between 2006 and 2010. These books should be of value to applicants for commercial uses of transgenic organisms (crops, trees, microorganisms), to regulators and risk assessors in national authorities, as well as the wider scientific community.
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19-Nov-2010
Do employers make the best use of people’s skills for innovation? This new book shows that interaction within organisations - as well as individual and organisational learning and training - are important for innovation. The analytical tools and empirical results this study provides show how some work organisations may foster innovation through the use of employee autonomy and discretion, supported by learning and training opportunities.
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10-Nov-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. While the bio-based economy-related issues of OECD countries have been largely studied; those of the BRICS countries have not been duly addressed.
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05-Oct-2010
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in partnership with the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Genomics Network (EGN) hosted a major Forum on 6-7 December 2010 at the OECD Headquarters in Paris. This Forum reviewed how knowledge in the life sciences is governed, shared, regulated and managed, and explored new linkages between the life sciences and information and communication technologies.
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02-Sep-2010
Innovation drives long-term economic growth and has a crucial role to play as global economies recover from the current financial crisis. This new book examines the role of innovation in developing countries, with a focus on Africa.
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Biotechnology Update No.20
07-Jul-2010
Biotechnology Update No.20
The new issue of the Newsletter prepared by the OECD Internal Co-ordination Group for Biotechnology (ICGB) is now available. It provides up-to-date information on OECD activities related to biotechnology. It is mainly intended for delegates to OECD meetings already familiar with certain aspects of the work, but is expected to be also informative for the wider biotech community.
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10-Jun-2010
The Symposium was held on 17 May 2010 in Montpellier, France. The overall goal of the meeting was to devise the first draft of a policy agenda and recommendations on how genomics can boost the development of the bioeconomy. The main messages which came out of the meeting were the need for guidelines on international cooperation in genomics R&D; the need to further advance the areas of genomics through innovative IPR management models; and the need for innovative approaches to measure the economic impact of genomics.
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27-May-2010
“Knowledge is the main driver of today’s global economy,” said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría at the launch of the OECD Innovation Strategy in Paris. “Countries need to harness innovation and entrepreneurship to boost growth and employment. This is the key to a sustainable rise in living standards.”
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30-Mar-2010
The OECD-Norway Workshop on Monday 21 June 2010 aims to bring together government and academic experts, and other interested parties, to discuss the latest developments and evidence on these performance-based funding systems. The workshop will include presentations on models of performance-based funding used by governments, the indicators incorporated within such models, and the impacts and consequences of these systems on institutional performance and incentives.
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Events
"Space Technologies and Climate Change" presented at the United Nations (Feb. 2009)
The OECD IFP was invited to present its work on the global Earth observation infrastructure (summarised in the publication “Space Technologies and Climate Change”) at the IAF Symposium on "The role of Earth observation satellites in promoting understanding and addressing climate change concerns". The event was held at the United Nations in Vienna, during the forty-sixth session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Link to presentations: http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/oosa/en/COPUOS/stsc/2009/index.html
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OECD ministers to discuss climate change, trade and global economy at annual meeting, Paris, 4-5 June
from 04-Jun-2008 to 05-Jun-2008
The economic impact of climate change, trade, growth and development issues will be discussed at the OECD’s annual ministerial meeting, in Paris on 4-5 June 2008. A brochure providing the background for the main topics that ministers will address is now online. It include a section on space applications and climate change. Read the document: “Meeting of the OECD Council at Ministerial Level 2008 - Key Information” (http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/44/40627761.pdf)
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Working Group - 5th meeting: indicators and statistics on the space economy
on 19-Feb-2008
The OECD Forum on Space Economics Working Group met in Paris on February 19th. The main theme of discussions concerned indicators and statistics on the space economy (definition…). Working Group members particularly encouraged the development of an innovative OECD Working Paper entitled “The Guide to Measuring the Space Economy”, to become available in summer 2008.
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Global Forum on Space Economics: Steering Group and Working Group meeting
from 22-Mar-2007 to 23-Mar-2007
The Steering Group and the Working Group of the OECD Global Forum on Space Economics met on the 22nd and 23rd of March 2007 at the OECD. The future OECD publication The Space Economy at a Glance will also be discussed. For more information please contact Mr. Pierre-Alain Schieb at Pierre-Alain.Schieb@oecd.org or Claire Jolly at Claire.Jolly@oecd.org.
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Global Forum on Space Economics: 1st Meeting of the Steering Group
from 16-Feb-2006 to 17-Feb-2006
On 16 and 17 February 2006, the Steering Group of the OECD Global Forum on Space Economics met to discuss the directions of work of the Forum. The Steering Group is composed of representatives of space agencies and ministries, in line with the intergovernmental nature of OECD Forums. A companion Working Group will be launched in June which will include representatives of the private sector and other interested parties. To learn more about the launch of the Forum, check our press release or read the descriptive overview . You can also address enquiries to Pierre-Alain.Schieb@oecd.org.
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Global Forum on Space Economics: Second Working Group meeting
on 29-Sep-2006
The OECD Global Forum on Space Economics held its Working Group meeting on 29th September 2006 at the OECD. For more information please contact Mr. Pierre-Alain Schieb at Pierre-Alain.Schieb@org or Claire Jolly at Claire.Jolly@oecd.org.
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on 02-Jun-2006
The OECD Global Forum on Space Economics held its first Working Group meeting on June 2nd, 2006. The Working Group is the operational body of the Forum, and is made up of participants from the public and the private sectors. To learn more about the Forum organisation and activities, please read the Forum's descriptive overview.
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Global Forum on Space Economics
from 27-Oct-2005 to 28-Oct-2005
On 27th and 28th October 2005, senior policy makers and decision makers from the space sector met in Paris to discuss the creation of an OECD Global Forum for the Economic Analysis of the Space Sector. The Forum, which operates within the OECD International Futures Programme, focused on the economic and social dimensions of space applications and exploration, thereby filling an important gap in the current international institutional framework for space-related activities. Please address enquiries to Pierre-Alain.Schieb@oecd.org.
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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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Space technology has huge potential to provide practical responses to society’s major challenges. Over the coming decades, governments will increasingly be confronted with long-term problems such as threats to the environment or the management of decreasing natural resources.
The report was presented at a news conference in Luxembourg, on 6 July 2005.
Speech by Michael Oborne, Director of the International Futures Programme/OECD in English and in French .
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