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No. 2003/01 | 28 Jan 2003 |
Venture Capital Policy Review
Despite high levels of private equity financing in the United Kingdom, relatively little funding is reaching small, technology-based companies. Institutional investors, both domestic and foreign, remain focused on later-stage deals. The United... |
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No. 2002/16 | 16 Jan 2002 |
Using Patents Data to Map Technical Change in Health-Related Areas
This document reports findings regarding the use of patents data for understanding various dimensions of technical change in health-related areas. Reported counts are based on “Triadic Patent Families”, that is sets of patents covering a single... |
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No. 2002/15 | 22 May 2002 |
Broadband Infrastructure Deployment
The potential economic importance of electronic commerce, and the role of broadband in supporting e-commerce, has increasingly led governments to place emphasis on facilitating access to broadband networks. To a large extent the emphasis has been on... |
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No. 2002/14 | 05 Apr 2002 |
Organisational Change and Firm Performance
Organisational change encompasses production processes (quality management, lean production, business re-engineering), management approaches (teamwork, training, flexible work and compensation) and external relations (outsourcing, customer relations,... |
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No. 2002/13 | 13 Sept 2002 |
The Contribution of ICT to Production Efficiency in Italy
This paper examines the impact of information and communications technologies (ICTs) on technical production efficiency in a wide range of Italian industries. Technical efficiency, defined as the firm’s distance from the production efficiency... |
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No. 2002/12 | 16 Jan 2002 |
Use of Plant-Level Micro-Data for the Evaluation of SME Innovation Policy in Japan
Japan’s SME policies have reached a turning point. The traditional policy of “lifting up SMEs” has been changed into a more pro-competitive policy to foster entrepreneurship and innovation in SMEs. This paper evaluates this policy and the new... |
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No. 2002/11 | 22 Apr 2002 |
Competition Policy and Innovation
This paper seeks to improve understanding of the links between innovation and competition policy. It is intended to help OECD Member countries identify ways in which they can design and implement policies that best promote innovation while protecting... |
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No. 2002/10 | 17 Jul 2002 |
ICT Skills and Employment
Given their role in the current transformation of advanced economies, information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer the promise of new business and employment opportunities along with higher productivity gains, but also make new demands on... |
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No. 2002/09 | 09 Aug 2002 |
Taxation, SMEs and Entrepreneurship
This paper discusses the implications of tax policy for the growth of entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Some existing features of OECD tax systems are biased against entrepreneurs and small firms. For instance, double... |
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No. 2002/08 | 20 Aug 2002 |
Linking Innovation to Productivity Growth Using Two Waves of the Community Innovation Survey
Using two waves of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) for the Netherlands, this paper integrates recent lines of research to estimate the contribution of innovation to manufacturing multifactor productivity (MFP) growth. The model uses CIS data to... |
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No. 2002/07 | 06 Mar 2002 |
Statistics on New Enterprises, Entrepreneurs and Survival of Start-Ups
The paper describes the methodology elaborated and used by Statistics Denmark to produce statistics on new enterprises. Statistics Denmark has developed its statistical monitoring of new enterprises based solely on the use of administrative... |
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No. 2002/06 | 07 Mar 2002 |
The Role of Exit and Entry in Australian Productivity Growth
The central aim of this paper is to report findings from an Australian study of the influence of firm dynamics on labour productivity growth during Australia’s productivity surge in the 1990s. Like studies of other countries, the within-firm effects... |
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No. 2002/05 | 01 Mar 2002 |
The OECD Technology Concordance (OTC)
While patent data are now readily available for most nations, these data are still of minimal use for economic analysis due to their mode of presentation. Patents are recorded for administrative purposes using the International Patent Classification... |
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No. 2002/04 | 15 Feb 2002 |
Global Industrial Restructuring
Global industrial restructuring in the current era is characterised by an increase in cross-border strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and other types of business networking. This presents new international opportunities for small... |
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No. 2002/03 | 27 Feb 2002 |
The Importance of Entry to Canadian Manufacuring, with an Appendix on Measurement Issues
Understanding the importance of the dynamic entry process in the Canadian economy involves measuring size of entry. The main purpose of this paper is to summarise the information that we have on the amount of entry in Canada.The paper also fulfils... |
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No. 2002/02 | 27 Feb 2002 |
Plant Turnover and Productivity Growth in Canadian Manufacturing
Entry is important because new firms and new plants provide an important source of competition to incumbents. They are a source of new products and technologies. In this paper, we outline the size of the turnover in plants that have entered and... |
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No. 2002/01 | 18 Jan 2002 |
Impact of the Adoption of Advanced Information and Communication Technologies on Firm Performance in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector
This paper investigates the evolution of the industrial structure in the Canadian manufacturing sector and its relationship to technological change by examining the take-up of advanced technologies and how it is related to the stochastic growth... |
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No. 2001/07 | 25 Oct 2001 |
ICT Investment and Economic Growth in the 1990s
Investment in information technologies has by no means been confined to the United States and yet, average European or Japanese growth experience has been quite different. The paper compares the impact of ICT capital accumulation on output growth in... |
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No. 2001/06 | 13 Sept 2001 |
Biotechnology Statistics in OECD Member Countries
This document reflects recent efforts made by the OECD to obtain an accurate assessment of the current state of biotechnology statistics in OECD Member and Observer countries.This project was realised thanks in large part to a voluntary contribution... |
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No. 2001/05 | 10 Oct 2001 |
The Renewal of the Old Economy
This paper presents international comparisons of the contribution of information and communication technology (ICT) to output and productivity growth during the 1990s. It makes a distinction between ICT-producing manufacturing and service industries,... |
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Venture Capital Policy Review
Günseli Baygan
28 Jan 2003
Despite high levels of private equity financing in the United Kingdom, relatively little funding is reaching small, technology-based companies. Institutional investors, both domestic and foreign, remain focused on later-stage deals. The United...
Using Patents Data to Map Technical Change in Health-Related Areas
Frank Lichtenberg and Suchin Virabhak
16 Jan 2002
This document reports findings regarding the use of patents data for understanding various dimensions of technical change in health-related areas. Reported counts are based on “Triadic Patent Families”, that is sets of patents covering a single...
Broadband Infrastructure Deployment
Atsushi Umino
22 May 2002
The potential economic importance of electronic commerce, and the role of broadband in supporting e-commerce, has increasingly led governments to place emphasis on facilitating access to broadband networks. To a large extent the emphasis has been on...
Organisational Change and Firm Performance
Marian Murphy
05 Apr 2002
Organisational change encompasses production processes (quality management, lean production, business re-engineering), management approaches (teamwork, training, flexible work and compensation) and external relations (outsourcing, customer relations,...
The Contribution of ICT to Production Efficiency in Italy
Carlo Milana and Alessandro Zeli
13 Sept 2002
This paper examines the impact of information and communications technologies (ICTs) on technical production efficiency in a wide range of Italian industries. Technical efficiency, defined as the firm’s distance from the production efficiency...
Use of Plant-Level Micro-Data for the Evaluation of SME Innovation Policy in Japan
Kazuyuki Motohashi
16 Jan 2002
Japan’s SME policies have reached a turning point. The traditional policy of “lifting up SMEs” has been changed into a more pro-competitive policy to foster entrepreneurship and innovation in SMEs. This paper evaluates this policy and the new...
Competition Policy and Innovation
Carl Shapiro
22 Apr 2002
This paper seeks to improve understanding of the links between innovation and competition policy. It is intended to help OECD Member countries identify ways in which they can design and implement policies that best promote innovation while protecting...
ICT Skills and Employment
Vladimir López-Bassols
17 Jul 2002
Given their role in the current transformation of advanced economies, information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer the promise of new business and employment opportunities along with higher productivity gains, but also make new demands on...
Taxation, SMEs and Entrepreneurship
Duanjie Chen, Franck Lee and Jack M. Mintz
09 Aug 2002
This paper discusses the implications of tax policy for the growth of entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Some existing features of OECD tax systems are biased against entrepreneurs and small firms. For instance, double...
Linking Innovation to Productivity Growth Using Two Waves of the Community Innovation Survey
George van Leeuwen
20 Aug 2002
Using two waves of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) for the Netherlands, this paper integrates recent lines of research to estimate the contribution of innovation to manufacturing multifactor productivity (MFP) growth. The model uses CIS data to...
Statistics on New Enterprises, Entrepreneurs and Survival of Start-Ups
Peter Bøegh Nielsen
06 Mar 2002
The paper describes the methodology elaborated and used by Statistics Denmark to produce statistics on new enterprises. Statistics Denmark has developed its statistical monitoring of new enterprises based solely on the use of administrative...
The Role of Exit and Entry in Australian Productivity Growth
Dean Parham
07 Mar 2002
The central aim of this paper is to report findings from an Australian study of the influence of firm dynamics on labour productivity growth during Australia’s productivity surge in the 1990s. Like studies of other countries, the within-firm effects...
The OECD Technology Concordance (OTC)
Daniel K. N. Johnson
01 Mar 2002
While patent data are now readily available for most nations, these data are still of minimal use for economic analysis due to their mode of presentation. Patents are recorded for administrative purposes using the International Patent Classification...
Global Industrial Restructuring
Kentaro Sakai
15 Feb 2002
Global industrial restructuring in the current era is characterised by an increase in cross-border strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and other types of business networking. This presents new international opportunities for small...
The Importance of Entry to Canadian Manufacuring, with an Appendix on Measurement Issues
John R. Baldwin, Desmond Beckstead and Andrée Girard
27 Feb 2002
Understanding the importance of the dynamic entry process in the Canadian economy involves measuring size of entry. The main purpose of this paper is to summarise the information that we have on the amount of entry in Canada.The paper also fulfils...
Plant Turnover and Productivity Growth in Canadian Manufacturing
John R. Baldwin and Wulong Gu
27 Feb 2002
Entry is important because new firms and new plants provide an important source of competition to incumbents. They are a source of new products and technologies. In this paper, we outline the size of the turnover in plants that have entered and...
Impact of the Adoption of Advanced Information and Communication Technologies on Firm Performance in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector
John R. Baldwin and David Sabourin
18 Jan 2002
This paper investigates the evolution of the industrial structure in the Canadian manufacturing sector and its relationship to technological change by examining the take-up of advanced technologies and how it is related to the stochastic growth...
ICT Investment and Economic Growth in the 1990s
Alessandra Colecchia and Paul Schreyer
25 Oct 2001
Investment in information technologies has by no means been confined to the United States and yet, average European or Japanese growth experience has been quite different. The paper compares the impact of ICT capital accumulation on output growth in...
Biotechnology Statistics in OECD Member Countries
Brigitte van Beuzekom
13 Sept 2001
This document reflects recent efforts made by the OECD to obtain an accurate assessment of the current state of biotechnology statistics in OECD Member and Observer countries.This project was realised thanks in large part to a voluntary contribution...
The Renewal of the Old Economy
Bart van Ark
10 Oct 2001
This paper presents international comparisons of the contribution of information and communication technology (ICT) to output and productivity growth during the 1990s. It makes a distinction between ICT-producing manufacturing and service industries,...