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Our mission is to provide governments with the analytical basis for policy formulation and advice on the scientific, technological and industrial environment and its relation to growth, employment and well-being.
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from 03-Sep-2008 to 04-Sep-2008
Organised by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the OECD, the goal of this conference is to reflect recent advances in the area of analysis with patent statistics.
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03-Jul-2008
This volume examines broadband developments and policies, and highlights challenges such as connecting users to fibre-based networks or coverage of rural areas. It also outlines emerging issues that may need policy attention as we move to next-generation networks. The findings are also relevant to emerging and developing economies designing broadband strategies.
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25-Jun-2008
Digital content is an important factor driving growth and employment, with widespread impacts on business, governments and society. These policy principles are designed to enhance the benefits of digital content-related innovations by promoting an enabling environment, enhancing the infrastructure, and fostering a business and regulatory climate conducive to the creation, access and use of digital content.
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25-Jun-2008
Responding to concerns of governments and the business community, this study develops and applies a rigorous methodology to estimate the incidence of counterfeit and pirated items in world trade. It suggests ways to develop information and analysis, and identifies a number of key areas that require the attention of policy makers.
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18-Jun-2008
The Seoul Declaration came at the close of the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy, held in Seoul, Korea, on 17-18 June 2008. Participants agreed on the need for governments to work closely with business, civil society and technical experts on policies that promote competition, empower and protect consumers, and expand Internet access and use worldwide.
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18-Jun-2008
This Recommendation is designed as a general framework for Member countries to foster wider and more effective use of public sector information and content, and the generation of new uses from it. It lays out principles for openness and transparent conditions for re-use, quality and integrity, new technologies and long-term preservation, copyright, pricing, competition and redress, and international access.
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18-Jun-2008
Stepped up actions to combat online identity theft, strengthen mobile commerce business practices, and promote more transparency and consumer flexibility in communication services were highlighted at a high-level OECD meeting on the future of the Internet Economy in Seoul, Korea on 17-18 June.
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18-Jun-2008
This recommendation provides guidance on the development of policies to protect critical information infrastructures (CII), the disruption or destruction of which would have a serious impact on the safety and well-being of citizens or the effective functioning of government or the economy. This guidance is derived from best practices identified in an OECD background report comparing CII policies in seven countries.
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16-Jun-2008
Intensified global competition has forced companies to innovate and develop commercially viable products and services faster. This new volume brings together the empirical evidence on the internationalisation of business research and development. It analyses trends in the offshoring of R&D, examines its drivers and motivations, and identifies implications for innovation policy.
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11-Jun-2008
Just published, this volume brings together several studies addressing the main areas of OECD work on the globalisation of value chains. The work has aimed to strengthen the evidence base on globalisation, which should ultimately enable the development of policies to address key concerns.
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06-Jun-2008
Major changes are affecting the scope and scale of the Internet. As a result, the Internet is increasingly high on the policy agenda in many OECD and non-OECD countries. This policy brief reviews likely future developments in the Internet economy and how policy-makers can help the Internet to adapt to evolving requirements caused by convergence, continue to drive innovation, and be trustworthy.
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06-Jun-2008
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 over 2000 regions are covered across OECD countries. REGPAT allows patent data to be used in connection with other regional data, thus providing researchers with the means to develop a rich set of new indicators and undertake a broad range of analyses to address the regional dimension of innovation.
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05-Jun-2008
OECD has just issued a new report on convergence and next generation networks and their potential impact on policies and regulations. The report addresses issues of competition in the new fibre environment, convergence of video, voice and data services, the rapid growth of new technologies, such as HDTV and mobile television, and the related demand for spectrum, as well as new possible "divides" between urban and rural areas created by the uneven development of high-speed fibre networks.
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05-Jun-2008
Broadband and networked ICTs are diffusing rapidly, but there are significant differences in use among countries, sectors and firms, and their impacts are only beginning to be felt. Broadband and networked ICTs are important in meeting health, demographic and environmental challenges, and policy plays an important role in expanding their use and enhancing their impact.
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30-May-2008
The new STAN Industry Database has been released. New tables, with data up to 2006, are provided for 18 countries, while tables for other countries will be added as they become available.
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29-May-2008
“How can the Internet make the world a better place?” This is the question OECD is asking the public on YouTube, the leading online video community, at www.youtube.com/futureinternet.
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29-May-2008
Malware has evolved from occasional “exploits” to a multi-million dollar criminal industry. This report informs policy makers about the evolution and impact of malware, as well as the counter-measures being taken. It concludes with suggestions for greater co-operation across the various international communities addressing malware.
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26-May-2008
This electronic publication provides recent statistics on the resources devoted to R&D in OECD countries and in nine non-member economies.
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26-May-2008
A timely set of indicators that reflect the level and structure of the efforts undertaken by OECD Member countries and selected non-member economies in the field of science and technology.
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23-May-2008
Improving the ability of consumers to choose between competing suppliers is important for well functioning markets. The report examines how to increase market flexibility for consumers in communication services, and improve access to information.
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23-May-2008
The world steel market remains strong in spite of heightened risks to the global economy, according to industry and government officials at the OECD’s Steel Committee meeting in Paris on 22-23 May 2008.
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20-May-2008
Identity theft has been identified by many as the fastest growing crime of the 21st Century. This paper examines the scope and scale of the issue, recommending the development of adequate law enforcement countermeasures to prevent, detect and deter it.
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19-May-2008
Broadband subscriptions reached 235 million in December 2008, equivalent to 20 subscribers per 100 inhabitants. Denmark, the Netherlands and Iceland continue to lead the OECD in broadband penetration.
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19-May-2008
Intellectual assets are central to value creation, economic growth and competitiveness in a modern economy. Building on previous OECD work 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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15-May-2008
With nearly 85% of all available Internet addresses already in use, experts believe that, if current trends continue, Internet addresses will run out by 2011. What next? Will the Internet be able to scale to connect billions of people and devices to the Internet? This new report focuses on possible scenarios and on the need to deploy the newer version of the Internet Protocol, IP version 6 (IPv6).
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07-May-2008
The present edition constitutes the 2007-2008 update of the wide range of indicators which were published in 2006 but also includes new indicators and provides notes as to the measurement challenges and the data choices that were made.
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06-May-2008
This new publication analyses how film and video industry value chains and business models are being changed by news ways of creating, distributing and using digital content. It explores how digital content affects the function and position of participants along the commercial industry value chain, and the policy implications of these changes.
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