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Actualités

Report on Industrial Biotechnology and Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges

10-nov.-2011

This report explores the potential role of industrial biotechnology in the biobased economy. Along the way it examines emerging trends, the impact of innovation, the convergence of technologies, and goes on to identify the challenges involved. It concludes with a need for an integrated and strategic approach to allow industrial biotechnology to fulfil its potential as a force for good, not a panacea, in the struggle with climate change.

OECD release: Terms of Reference for the review of the OECD Privacy Guidelines

01-nov.-2011

The Terms of Reference articulate a shared view among OECD members about key aspects of the current context for privacy protection and provide orientation for further work on the review.

Business Innovation Policies: Selected Country Comparisons

27-oct.-2011

This study is concerned with trends in and key features of policies and programmes used by governments to support innovation in the business sector. In addition to identifying good practices across a range of programme types, it compares business innovation policies across a number of countries.

Future Prospects for Industrial Biotechnology

03-oct.-2011

This publication examines the international drivers, the enabling technologies fast-tracking industrial biotechnology, industry trends, some of the products that are appearing on the market, industry structure and finance, and policy measures and trends. It examines separately biofuels, biobased chemicals and bioplastics.

Public Research Institutions: Mapping Sector Trends

30-sept.-2011

Public research institutions (PRIs) are crucial for innovation due to their role in knowledge creation and diffusion. This publication provides new information on PRIs and government strategies, showing how they have evolved.

The Role of Internet Intermediaries in Advancing Public Policy Objectives

30-sept.-2011

This book presents a comprehensive view of Internet intermediaries, their economic and social function, development and prospects, benefits and costs, and roles and responsibilities.

OECD Sustainable Manufacturing Toolkit

12-sept.-2011

This toolkit aims to provide a practical starting point for businesses around the world to improve the efficiency of their production processes and products enabling them to contribute to sustainable development and green growth. It includes an internationally applicable common set of indicators helping businesses measure their environmental performance at the level of a plant or facility. In addition to the Toolkit's web portal, the user guide booklet is now available.

Just published: Fostering Innovation for Green Growth

12-sept.-2011

Innovation is key to green growth. It helps decouple growth from natural capital depletion and contributes to economic growth and job creation. Business is the driver of innovation, but governments need to provide clear and stable market signals. This book explores policy actions for the deployment of new technologies and innovations as they emerge: investment in research and development, support for commercialisation, strengthening markets and fostering technology diffusion. Competition will be essential to bring out the best solutions.

Collaborative Mechanisms for Intellectual Property Management in the Life Sciences

12-sept.-2011

This report explores how new and evolving approaches to IP, such as licensing and auctions, patents pools, IP clearinghouses and emerging models of research collaborations are impacting the modern scientific environment in life sciences. It suggests ways in which both the public and private sectors seek to evolve from an “own and protect” model of intellectual property into an era of “own and share”, where value accrues not just to the initial owner of IP, but also to larger society as a whole.

Untangling intangible assets

09-sept.-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".


Evénements

70th Session of the OECD Steel Committee

du 12-mai-2011 au 13-mai-2011

The 70th Session of the OECD Steel Committee took place in Paris on 12-13 May 2011.

Atelier sur les facteurs de distorsion du marché dans le secteur de la construction navale, Paris, les 3-4 décembre 2009

du 03-déc.-2009 au 04-déc.-2009

Cet atelier, qui a réuni des pays non-membres de l'OCDE et le secteur privé, a examiné les facteurs de distorsion du marché sous la perspective de l'Accord de l'OCDE sur la construction navale. Les documents et présentations de l'atelier sont disponibles ici.

Workshop on consumer protection in online and mobile payments

le 15-avr.-2011

Innovative online payments services has increasingly been offered to consumers in recent years. Financial and non-financial institutions are now working towards the commercialisation of new and easy-to-use mobile payment systems. Despite the benefits and convenience these systems may bring, a number of issues need to be resolved. An OECD workshop served to discuss emerging challenges in the payments area and ways to address them effectively. The event was organised within the framework of the review of the 1999 E-commerce Guidelines.

OECD-NSF Workshop: Building a Smarter Health and Wellness Future

du 15-févr.-2011 au 16-févr.-2011

This workshop reviewed how new high-speed and mobile applications, connected devices, social networks, and related cutting-edge smart technological developments can provide unprecedented opportunities for developing an environment and services that can help address the health and wellness challenges of our ageing society, stimulating collaboration and innovation on a global scale.

69th Session of the OECD Steel Committee

du 02-déc.-2010 au 03-déc.-2010

The 69th Session of the OECD Steel Committee meeting was held on 2-3 December 2010 at the OECD Headquarters in Paris. The presentations at the meeting can be found here.

OECD Global Forum on Biotechnology - Delivering Global Promise Through the Life Sciences

du 06-déc.-2010 au 07-déc.-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) will host a major Forum on 6-7 December 2010 at the OECD Headquarters in Paris.  This Forum will review how knowledge in the life sciences is governed, shared, regulated and managed, and to explore new linkages between the life sciences and information and communication technologies.

Smart ICTs and Green Growth

le 29-sept.-2010

“Smart” ICTs can play a key role in addressing the green growth challenge in energy, transport and water management. The OECD held a technology foresight forum in Paris to discuss environmental opportunities, existing barriers and some potential risks to the wider roll-out of smart infrastructures. The website has the online webcast, presentations and an analytical background report for download.

OECD Workshop on Green Technology and Innovation Policies

le 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.

OECD/World Bank Workshop on Global Value Chains and Emerging Economies

le 22-sept.-2010

This workshop reviewed OECD and World Bank work on global production networks and promoted concrete policy options for an employment-based recovery and trade-led growth. Invited speakers from a broad range of institutions, including from emerging economies, presented their findings and participated in the discussions.

Workshop on Better Health through Bio-Medicine: Innovative Governance

du 27-sept.-2010 au 28-sept.-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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Science, technologie et industrie : Tableau de bord de l'OCDE 2011

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