Innovation in energy technology has widespread implications for OECD economies. Although the energy sector accounts for a small share of GOP, the pervasive use of energy throughout modern economies makes uninterrupted supplies and slable prices critical t
This book is based on the initial results of new enquiries into innovatio, and recent studies using patent data. It sheds new light on the nature of technolgoical change and its effects on productivity and international competitivity. While emphasizing th
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become major factors that drive economic growth and social development. ICTs can improve access to haealth and education services, and create new sources of income and employment for poor people. The internet has been remarkably successful i...
The Convention on Biological Diversity, signed in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, is a permanent, worldwide commitment to conserving the earth's biological diversity. The Convention has brought into focus the links between access to genetic resources, equitable s
This report is in response to a request by the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry to compile and analyse biosafety inforamtion on fiel releases of modified plants (virtually all of the modified plants described in this report are transg
Monitoring the research and development efforts of industry, government and countries is essential to policy making and analysis. The Frascati Manual is the basic international source of methodology for collecting and using research and evelopment statist
Explosive growth in the use of information systems for all manner of applications in all parts of life has made proper security essential. Security of inforamtion systems often cross national boundaries and because the issues to which they give rise may m
This book examines experiences in all of these fields, as well as addressing the increasingly important roles played by local and regional authorities, the contribution of entrepreneurship in the non-profit sector, ard the emergence of entrepreneurship in
This report addresses the role of innovation in green growth strategies, and is a contribution to the OECD Green Growth Strategy. The OECD Council Meeting at Ministerial Level (MCM) adopted a Oeclaration on Green Growth on 25 June 2009, which invited the OECD lo develop a Green Growth Strategy. G...
The health sector has been the driving force of modern
biotechnology from its earliest origins. The new knowledge was at first used to do known things in better ways; now it is being applied to more difficult problems, such as inherited genetic disabilit
