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...
Strategic business services, examined in twenty-one OECD coountry case studies in this book, comprise services in computer sofware and information processing, research and development and technical testing, marketing, business organisation (management consultancy and labour recruitment) and human...
Russia inherited the major portion of its scientific and technical system from the former Soviet Union. During the economic crissi and political uncertainty of the transition, this enormous apparatus has rapidly deteriorated. What is the current state of R&D efforts? What is happerning or has hap...
Russia inherited the major portion of the scientific and technological system of the former Soviet Union. In the economic crisis and the political uncertainty of transition, this vast apparatus is deteriorating rapidly. What is the status of research and development today? What is becoming of res...
Science, technology and industry are in a period of change, reflecting an ongoing move to a knowledge-based economy. Rapid technological
progress, driven by a productive scientific community and increasingly
effi cient business practices, the growing role of information and
communications tech...
