Market liberalisation of telecommunication services has increased these last years, as has efficiency. While monopolies continue in certain OECD countries, a clear momentum exists for their elimination. However, restrictions on the competitive provision of infrastructure the hardware and software...
This report reviews science and technology policy trends and outlooks in OECD countries and provides a detailed country by country presentation of recent policy initiatives. It also presents trends in research and technical/industrial performance. Specific issues raised by megascience and biotech...
Since the publication of Recombinant DNA Safety Considerations (1986) and Good Development Principles (GDP) for small-scale field research (1992), the OECD Group of National Experts on Safety in Biotechnology has further developed the safety principles and criteria which those reports had put for...
The goal of the OECD Biosafely COnsensus Documents is to identity elementos of scietific information used in the environmental safety and risk assessment of transgenic organisms which are common to OECD member countries. This is intended to encourage information sharing and prevent duplication of...
The goal of the OECD Biosafety Consensus Docuemnts is to identify elements of scientific information used in the environmental safety and risk assessment of transgenic organisms which are common to OECD member countries. This is intended to encourage information sharing and prevent duplication of...
All countries recognise that thriving, competitive, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are of vital political, economic, and social importance. Where does technology rank among the different factors determining the competitiveness of SMEs? How do SMEs gain access to the strategic resource ...
The articles presented in this special issue of the STI Review are part of the overall OECD effort to analyse, understand and develop policies to reduce unemployment. They were presented in earlier versions at the Helsinki Confrerence on Technology, Innovation Policy and Emplyment. Together they ...
Given the canging role of government research establishments and the interest in maximising return on capital and intellectual investment, determining the best way to apply or spin-off technologies from the nuclear field into other industrial and commercial sectors is of increasing concern. This ...
During 1994 and 1995 growth in the steelmaking capacity of non-OECD
countries seems to have reached a new plateau . Emphasis was
placed on restructuring, modernisation and privatisation in the steel
sector of the central and eastern European countries, as well as in sorne of the New Independen...
This new publication, prepared every two years, assesses steelmaking capacity in all non-OECD coountries in 1994 and provides an outlook for 1997. The report concludes that growth in non-OECD steelmaking capacity will be relatively high during the next several years. Most of the increase is expec...
