The Iron and Steel Industry: online 2008 edition

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01-Apr-2008

What are the trends in the iron and steel industry for the world's major economies? This online publication provides analysis and statistics on key developments in the steel industry and selected raw materials markets.

Recent Trends in the Internationalisation of R&D in the Enterprise Sector

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13-Mar-2008

The internationalisation of scientific and technological activities has grown in scale. The role and strategy of multinationals in R&D raises new issues not only for firms themselves but also for policy makers. This report sets out facts and trends that emerge from the data available.

OECD Innovation Microdata Project

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21-Feb-2008

The OECD Innovation Microdata project is the first large-scale attempt at exploiting firm-level data from innovation surveys for economic analysis in a harmonised way.

OECD/UNESCO Institute for Statistics/Eurostat Careers of Doctorate Holders (CDH) project

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22-Jan-2008

This page presents the OECD statistical work on human resources in science and technology, more specifically the OECD/UNESCO Institute for Statistics/Eurostat Project on Careers of Doctorate Holders.

Mapping Careers and Mobility of Doctorate Holders: Draft Guidelines, Model Questionnaire and Indicators (STI Working Paper 2007/6)

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19-Dec-2007

by Laudeline Auriol (OECD), Bernard Felix (Eurostat, EC), and Ernesto Fernandez-Polcuch (UNESCO Institute for Statistics)

This document presents the three main components of a collaborative project on careers of doctorate holders: 1) the methodological guidelines; 2) a core model questionnaire and instruction manual; and 3) output indicator tables used for reporting data at the international level.

OECD.Stat

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10-Dec-2007

OECD.Stat contains complete databases and is freely available as a beta release via OECD’s iLibrary, SourceOECD until the end of October 2008.

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.

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.

Strengthening Consumer Protection in the Internet Economy

OECD Conference on Empowering E-Consumers

Broadband Statistics

Now updated with data through December 2008

OECD Broadband Portal

Responses to the economic crisis

By investing smart, governments can buffer the downturn, accelerate recovery and lay the foundation for strong and sustainable growth.

Innovation and the Crisis

Editor's Choice

The most recent comparable data on communication sector performance.

OECD Communications Outlook 2009

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