OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2007

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25-Oct-2007

Bringing together over 200 internationally comparable quality indicators to explore the progress of national innovation strategies and recent developments in science, technology and industry.

Nowcasting Patent Indicators (STI Working Paper 2007/3)

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12-Oct-2007

by Hélène Dernis

This study aims at designing simple but robust methods that would enable to "nowcast", i.e. forecast the present (or the recent past), in order to improve the timeliness of patent indicators.

Guide to Measuring the Information Society

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05-Oct-2007

Current agreed standards for measuring ICT.

Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators in a Changing World: Responding to Policy Needs

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25-Sep-2007

This volume presents policy needs, measurement issues and some of the challenges in developing indicators for cross-cutting and emerging topics in science, technology and innovation. It shares ideas to exploit existing data and develop new measurement frameworks.

OECD Communications Outlook 2007

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13-Jul-2007

The OECD Communications Outlook provides an extensive range of indicators for different types of communications networks and compares performance indicators such as revenue, investment, employment and prices for services throughout the OECD area.

Offshoring and Employment: Trends and Impacts

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13-Jul-2007

This report provides new insights into offshoring, which has become a fact of life for business, and describes the wide-ranging effects that offshoring can have on domestic employment -- the positive, as well as the negative.

Staying Competitive in the Global Economy: Moving Up the Value Chain (Synthesis Report)

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06-Jun-2007

The globalisation of production has changed the industrial structure within OECD countries, and in some sectors blunted their competitiveness. Another major consequence has been fears of job losses, due to outsourcing and offshoring. How should OECD countries respond?

Compensated Gross Ton (CGT) System - 2007

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08-Nov-2006

The OECD Council Working Party on Shipbuilding, in association with the major shipbuilding associations, has released a revised and updated system to calculate compensated gross tons (cgt).

Developments in Steelmaking Capacity of Non-OECD Economies

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07-Nov-2006

This publication is a two-yearly report on trends in the steelmaking capacity in economies that are not members of the OECD. This report examines the current steelmaking capacity of these economies and likely changes therein up to the year 2008.

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