Publications & Documents

Description of National Innovation Surveys Carried out or Foreseen in 1997-99 in OECD Non-CIS-2 Participants and NESTI Observer Countries (STI Working Paper 1999/1)

This document provides the main characteristics of national innovation surveys carried out in (or intented to be carried out) in 1997-99 in OECD non-CIS-2 participants and observer countries of the OECD Working Party on Science and Technology Indicators (NESTI).

Workshop on Defining and Measuring Electronic Commerce

OECD Workshop on Defining and Measuring Electronic Commerce - 21 April 1999 What do we mean by e-commerce? What we want to measure and why? What can be measured? What are the policy needs and what type of indicators are needed? Which of the exi...

Asia and the Global Crisis: The Industrial Dimension

It was a financial crisis, or was it? Did a band of speculators and money-changers pull the rug out from under the Thai, Malaysian, Philippine, Indonesian and Korean economies, thereby trashing the Asian Miracle. Or were more profound, longer-ter...

Knowledge-based Industries in Asia

Asian economies are developing knowledge-based industries based on information and communications technologies (ICT) according to visionary strategies. However, they still suffer from structural weaknesses in industry highlighted by the Asian fin...

Report on the Dublin workshop: The Internet: Convergence and Self-Governance

The OECD and OSIPP (Osaka University), organised a Workshop on "The Internet: Convergence and Self-Governance", on 9-10 June 1998

Global Information Infrastructure - Global Information Society (GII-GIS)

The development of an information society is expected to stimulate economic growth and productivity, create new economic activities as well as jobs.

Corporate Governance: Effects on Firm Performance and Economic Growth

This paper provides a qualitative assessment of the underlying factors that promote efficient corporate governance and examines the strengths, weaknesses, and economic implications associated with corporate governance systems in OECD countries.

Economic and Social Impact of E-commerce (OECD Digital Economy Paper 40)

This book represents one of the first analyses of the role of e-commerce in the broader economy, and addresses such issues as the impact of e-commerce on employment and on society as a whole, as well as its contribution to economic growth and efficiency.

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Assessment of the Belgian S&T Statistical System and Priorities for Development Work: An OECD Perspective (STI Working Paper 1998/5)

The objective of this report is to make recommendations as to what most important S&T statistical information is required to enable the OECD to include Belgian indicators in its official S&T reports and publications.