The financial and economic crisis beginning in 2008 has forced governments to focus strongly on how to maximise savings and, at the same time, ensure improved public services. OECD countries have already, over the last 10-15 years, invested substantially in the development e-government services a...
Industrial research & development (R&D) is defined as R&D activities carried out in the business enterprise sector, regardless of the origin of funding. While the govemment and the higher education sectors also carry out R&D activities, industrial R&D remains the most closely linked to the creati...
The publication reflects recent efforts made by the OECD to improve the quality and ovailability of industrial R&D expenditure data. hence, as of this year, the coverage of ANBERD has been extended to 58 sectors, including extended converage of the services, starting with the survey year 1987. Th...
This annual publication reflects recent efforts made by the OECD to improve the quality and availability of its data on industrial R&D expenditure. The publication first presents estimated data coovering a period of 23 years for 15 OECD countries, as well as a zone total for the european Union. I...
El presente Manual se ha redactado por y para los expertos nacionales de los
países miembros que, entre otras cosas, recogen y difunden los datos nacionales
relativos a la I+D, y responden a las encueslas de la OCDE sobre I+D realizadas
con la cooperación del Secretaria~lo de la División ele a...
Many criteria or test issues for the degree of modernity of new and old intellectual property laws are also analysed: protection for chemical and pharmaceutical products or for biotechnological inventions; trademark protection; protection of know-how and trade secrets; and, finally, protection of...
Technology plays a major role in shaping industrial performance: it affects productivity growth, creates and destroys jobs, changes skill requirements in the economy, and shapes the capacity of firms and indsutries to perform in international markets. Its potential economic gains are realised, ho...
While the development of new knowledge is becoming incrasingly important in the emerging knowledge-based economy, the impact of technology on growth, jobs and welfare is determined largely by the way in which technology is diffused, absorbed and used throughout the economy. For technological prog...
This study sheds light on the dual technical and economic logic of industrial innovation. It particularly draws attention to the predominant role which the combination of technologies plays in the generation of new products and processes. The concept of technology integration thus becomes more re...
This report presents the work of the group of experts together with the Policy Statement on Technology and the Economy adopted by the OECD Council at Ministerial level in June 1991. Another OECD publication, International Conference Cycle, provides a concise review of the main outcomes of ten int...
