DIGITAL ECONOMY PAPERS

Digital Economy Papers cover a broad range of issues including infrastructure, digital security and privacy, digital innovation, consumer issues and skills.

Science, technology and industry policy papers

STI Policy Papers cover a broad range of topics including industry and globalisation, innovation and entrepreneurship, scientific R&D and emerging technologies.  

science, technology and industry working papers

STI Working Papers cover a wide range of topics including definition and measurement of science and technology indicators, global value chains, and research on policies to promote innovation. These technical or analytical working papers are prepared by staff or outside consultants in a bid to share early insights and elicit feedback.

POLICY NOTES

 Going digital

• Trade and cross-border data flows
• The promises and pitfalls of SupTech for corporate governance-related enforcement
• Encouraging digital security vulnerability treatment (also available in French)
• Using digital technologies to strengthen shareholder participation
• Digital supply-use tables: Making digital transformation more visible in economic statistics
• The role of online marketplaces in enhancing consumer protection
• Measuring well-being in the digital age
• Smart policies for smart products: A policy maker’s guide to enhancing the digital security of products (also available in French)
• Digital security: Seven lessons learned during the COVID-19 crisis (also available in Spanish)
• E-commerce in the time of COVID-19 (also available in French)
• Combatting COVID-19 disinformation on online platforms (also available in French, Japanese, Portuguese)
• Keeping the Internet up and running in times of crisis (also available in French, Spanish)
• Consumer data and competition: A new balancing act for online markets?
• Regulating app-based mobility services
• Making online markets more competitive: The benefits and challenges of conglomerate merger review
• The role of sandboxes in promoting flexibility and innovation in the digital age
• Regulating platform work in the digital age
• Tracking and tracing COVID-19: Protecting privacy and data while using apps and biometrics (also available in French, Portuguese, Spanish)
• Using artificial intelligence to help combat COVID-19 (also available in French, Portuguese, Spanish)
• Protecting online consumers during the COVID-19 crisis
• Ensuring data privacy as we battle COVID-19 (also available in Portuguese, Spanish)
• Dealing with digital security risk during the COVID-19 crisis (also available in French, Portuguese)
• Growing up online: Addressing the needs of children in the digital environment
• Southeast Asia going digital: Connecting SMEs
• Enhancing access to and sharing of data: Reconciling risks and benefits of data re-use across societies
• Data in the digital age
• Unpacking e-commerce: Business models, trends and policies
• Enhancing access and connectivity to harness digital transformation
• Private equity investment in artificial intelligence
• Improving online disclosures with behavioural insights: Towards better outcomes for consumers 
• Data-driven innovation for growth and well-being: What implications for governments and businesses? 

 
Industry, globalisation, entrepreneurship, productivity

• Business dynamism during the COVID-19 pandemic: Which policies for an inclusive recovery? (also available in French)
• Declining business dynamism: Cross-country evidence, drivers and the role of policy
• Laggard firms and technology diffusion
• COVID-19 and the aviation industry: Impact and policy responses
• How effective are R&D tax incentives? New evidence from the OECD microBeRD project (also available in French)
• Productivity gains from teleworking in the post COVID-19 era: How can public policies make it happen? (also available in French, Japanese)
• COVID-19 and the retail sector: Impact and policy responses (also available in French, Japanese, Spanish)
• Start-ups and COVID-19: Facing the challenges, seizing the opportunities
• Productivity growth in the digital age
• Preparing for the changing nature of work in the digital era
• Evaluation of the Italian "Start-up Act" (also available in Italian)
• The future of global value chains (GVCs): Business as usual or a "new normal"? 
  
• The great divergence(s): The link between growing productivity dispersion and wage inequality  

• Where to locate innovative activities? Does co-location with production matter?
• No country for young firms? Policy failures and regulations are a greater obstacle for start-ups than for incumbents
• Routine jobs, employment and technological innovation in GVCs  

• The innovation imperative: Contributing to productivity, growth and well-being 

Science & technology, space and oceans

• Greater harmonisation of clinical trial regulations would help the fight against COVID-19 (also available in French)
• The impacts of COVID-19 on the space industry
• Science, technology and innovation: How co-ordination at home can help the global fight against COVID-19 (also available in French)
• Crowdsourcing STI policy solutions to COVID-19
• Why open science is critical to combatting COVID-19 (also available in Portuguese, Spanish)
• Providing science advice to policy makers during COVID-19 (also available in Spanish)
• Using artificial intelligence to help combat COVID-19
• Charting the digital transformation of science
• Fostering science and innovation in the digital age
• Rethinking innovation for a sustainable ocean economy
• The ocean as a sustainable source of economic growth