OECD Workshop on Best Practices in Assessing the Environmental and Economic Sustainability of Bio-based Products - Montreal, Canada - 23-24 July 2009

An OECD workshop hosted by Canada will be held on July 23-24, 2009 in Montréal, Québec immediately after the 6th World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bio-processing to discuss progress over the past 5 years in the methodologies used for sustainability assessment of bio-based products.

International Co-operation to address Global Challenges - New Approaches and Governance Mechanisms for Multinational Science and Technology Co-operation

In recent years, the need to address social and environmental challenges has grown in urgency. Climate change, energy supply and security, agriculture and food security, and water are some of the global challenges that have received increasing attention of the highest political level.

Workshop on International Co-operation to Address Global Challenges - New Approaches and Governance Mechanisms for Multinational Science and Technology Co-operation

Examples of research collaboration on climate change, food security, energy, and infectious diseases help demonstrate the potential that some key global challenges can be addressed through enhanced international STI co-operation.

Enhancing Innovation: OECD Workshop on Collaborative Mechanisms for Intellectual Property Management (Paris, 4-5 May 2009)

This workshop will focus on collaborative mechanisms such as IP clearinghouses, patent pools, model/framework agreements, IP exchanges and auctions, and other forms of innovation partnerships. Several initiatives to be presented at the workshop have garnered international attention.

Revising the Lisbon Strategy through the OECD Innovation Strategy

Speech by OECD Deputy Secretary-General Pier Carlo Padoan at the INCOM Workshop on Innovation and Growth Policy in the EU, Prague, 22-23 January 2009

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• The OECD Innovation Strategy

Informal Seminar on Sustainability and the Role of Innovation Policies in the Current Financial Crisis

Summary and conclusions of a seminar held at the OECD on 16 February 2009.

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• The OECD Innovation Strategy

Workshop on Innovation for Development: Converting Knowledge to Value (Paris, 28-30 January 2009)

This workshop will examine ways in which knowledge contributes to innovation, especially in developing countries.

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OECD Expert Workshop on Policy Issues for the Development and Use of Biomarkers in Health, 6-7 October 2008

The impact of biotechnologies on medical research is intensifying. Because of new highly performing technologies, we are better able to understand and explore disease and drug mechanisms, which in turn could lead to major changes in the approach of patient care.

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• Biomarkers and Targeted Therapies

2nd OECD Conference on Innovation in the Software Sector, 6 October 2008

This conference will consider innovation in the software sector from business and economic perspectives, taking into account the factors that drive innovation, including key framework conditions.

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• Innovation in the Software Sector
• OECD Conference on Innovation in the Software Sector, 29-30 November 2007

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.