Creating Value from Intellectual Assets

This report documents the growing importance of intellectual assets for firms and the economy more generally and draws a number of implications for policy makers.

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Global Overview of Innovative Activities from the Patent Indicators Perspective (STI Working Paper 2006/3)

This paper provides an overview of innovative activities across a wide range of OECD member and non-member countries, based on internationally comparable patent indicators.

Workshop on Researcher Careers for the 21th Century (Madrid, Spain), 26-27 April 2006

This joint OECD-Spanish government workshop on "Researcher Careers for the 21st Century" aimed to address key issues on researcher careers. A summary of the workshop is available here.

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• Workshop on Researcher Careers for the 21th Century (April 2006, Madrid, Spain): Summary
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Innovation in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Comparing National Innovation Systems at the Sectoral Level

This publication examines the innovation system in pharmaceutical biotechnology in eight OECD countries. Based on rich evidence, it draws policy recommendations to foster innovation in biopharmaceuticals advocating an integrated policy approach.

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• Sectoral Case Studies in Innovation: Pharmaceutical biotechnology
• Pharmacogenetics: Opportunities and Challenges for Health Innovation

Biotechnology Regulatory Contacts in OECD Member Countries

Most OECD Member countries have a regulatory system for the products of modern biotechnology intended for release to the environment and for food/ feed use. This page includes links to portals of each member country which include relevant information.

Research Use of Patented Knowledge: A Review (STI Working Paper 2006/2)

This paper outlines factors that may affect the ability of researchers to access patented inventions for legitimate research purposes. It reviews evidence of access limitations and explores options for the formulation of research exemptions that balance research use and patent holders' rights.

Innovation and Knowledge-Intensive Service Activities

This study shows how knowledge-intensive services activities (KISAs) contribute to the acquisition and growth capabilities of firms and public sector organisations.

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Productivity Impacts of Offshoring and Outsourcing: A Review (STI Working Paper 2006/1)

Despite the attention that offshore outsourcing currently demands in the public media, there is little empirical evidence on its economic impact. This paper surveys the empirical literature on offshore outsourcing and its productivity effects.

Policy Brief : Improving Water Management: Recent OECD Experience

Securing safe and reliable water and sanitation services for all is one of the leading challenges facing sustainable development. All but a few OECD countries have connected 100% of their populations to safe water supplies, and the majority are connected to wastewater treatment. Progress has also been made in developing countries, where between 1990 and 2000 access to safe water supply rose from 73% to almost 80% of the population.

Policy Brief : Keeping Water Safe to Drink

Access to water that is safe to drink is vital to human health and to development. Recognising this, world leaders have set themselves the goal of halving by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. This is one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) to reduce world poverty set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration in the year 2000, and reaffirmed at the 2002