Austria

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Creation and Governance of Human Genetic Research Databases

31-Oct-2006

Summarises proceedings of a conference looking at examples of human genetic research databases, how they are established, how they are managed and governed, how they might be commercialised, and what the policy considerations might be.

Workshop on Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET): Strategies for a Global Workforce

28-Sep-2006

Addressing barriers to the education, recruitment, progression and retention of women in science, engineering and technology (SET), from school age-level, to university studies, to late career, is key for meeting the increasing demand for a skilled workforce.

Country Profiles: An Overview of Early Childhood Education and Care Systems in the Participating Countries - Austria

18-Sep-2006

The country profiles provide a comparative overview of the major indicators of Early Childhood Education and Care in the participating countries.

CERI - Schooling for Tomorrow Country Initiatives: Austria

05-Sep-2006

CERI - Schooling for Tomorrow Country Initiatives of futures thinking in action: a report on the situation in Austria.

OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance: Austria

02-Aug-2006

This site contains a list of key references on Austria. The documentary database includes documents on partnership and local governance that have been published by governments, universities and other organisations.

Briefing note for OECD Health Data 2006: AUSTRIA

26-Jun-2006

Total health spending accounted for 9.6% of GDP in Austria in 2004, slightly higher than the OECD average of 8.9%.

Clusters, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

20-Jun-2006

John Potter; Gabriela Miranda

Explores the success of major innovation and entrepreneurship clusters in OECD countries, the challenges they now face in sustaining their positions and the lessons for other places seeking to build successful clusters.

Government R&D Funding and Company Behaviour: Measuring Behavioural Additionality

08-Jun-2006

This publication explores the emerging concept of behavioural additionality (how government funding of business R&D affects the behaviour of firms) and summarises results of a multinational effort to measure it.

ICT Diffusion to Business: National Peer Reviews: Austria

14-Apr-2006

Austria is in the middle of OECD countries in ICT indicators. Policy aims to increase competitiveness and tackle market distortions and failures by liberalising network services, incentives to private R&D, and initiatives for ICT skills and diffusion, but co-ordination remains a complex task.