The Internationalisation of Business R&D: Evidence, Impacts and Implications

Intensified global competition has forced companies to innovate and develop commercially viable products and services faster. This report brings together the empirical evidence on the internationalisation of business research and development.

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The OECD REGPAT Database: A Presentation (STI Working Paper 2008/2)

This database presents patent data linked to regions according to the addresses of the applicants and inventors. The data have been regionalised at a very detailed level so that more than 2000 regions are covered across OECD countries.

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List of Manufactured Nanomaterials and List of Endpoints for Phase One of the OECD Testing Programme

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Current Development and Activities on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials/Nanotechnologies

Current Developments and Activities on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials (3rd Meeting of the Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials held on 28-30 November 2007)

ICGB Newsletter No. 19

A new issue of the OECD Biotechnology Update has been published. This newsletter provides up-to-date information on the diverse activities at OECD related to biotechnology.

Intellectual Assets and Value Creation: Synthesis Report

Intellectual assets are central to value creation, economic growth and competitiveness in a modern economy. Building on these issues, this brochure provides an integrated perspective on recent OECD work covering three dimensions: macro, regional and firm-level.

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This report sheds light on ways to get the right mix of innovation policies in Poland.

The Measurement of Globalisation Using International Input-Output Tables (STI Working Paper 2007/8)

One of the distinctive characteristics of the current globalisation process is the emergence of global value chains. This paper shows how international input-output tables can be used to provide empirical evidence of the growing importance of these global value chains.

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OECD working party launches safety testing of nanomaterials

OECD member countries, as well as some non-member economies and other stakeholders, are pooling expertise and funding to test the human health and environmental safety effects of a number of nanomaterials.

International Symposium on the Risk Assessment of Manufactured Nanomaterials

This symposium will be held on 23rd April 2007 in Tokyo, Japan. A two-day OECD WPMN meeting - OECD Workshop on the Sponsorship Programme for the Testing of Manufactured Nanomaterials - will follow this event to discuss the sponsorship programme for the testing of manufactured nanomaterials.