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No. 2018/05 | 26 Mar 2018 |
Multinational enterprises and global value chains
Because of their numerous and large activities across different countries, Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) are believed to be central and dominant actors in the global economy. In addition, it has been argued that the growing fragmentation of... |
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No. 2018/04 | 23 Mar 2018 |
Gene editing in an international context
Gene editing techniques represent a major advance in the field of biotechnological research and application, promising significant benefits across the domains of human health, sustainability and the economy. There is broad agreement that gene editing... |
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No. 2018/03 | 27 Feb 2018 |
Industrial robotics and the global organisation of production
Increased robot use, fuelled by price declines and the increased dexterity of these machines, is expected to affect existing/future production technologies and the organisation of production within GVCs. In order to safeguard their competitiveness in... |
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No. 2018/02 | 08 Feb 2018 |
A portrait of innovative start-ups across countries
The report presents new cross-country descriptive evidence on innovative start-ups and related venture capital investments drawing upon Crunchbase, a new dataset that is unprecedented in terms of scope and comprehensiveness. The analysis employs a... |
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No. 2018/01 | 18 Jan 2018 |
Revised proposal for the revision of the statistical definitions of biotechnology and nanotechnology
Agreement on a harmonised application of clear statistical definitions of technologies is pertinent to the delineation of technology fields both with regard to each other and within the context of wider economic developments. Biotechnology and... |
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No. 2017/09 | 03 Nov 2017 |
Economic shocks and changes in global production structures
Conventional studies on the impacts of economic shocks using global input-output tables (sensitivity analyses) assume stable production structures and thus, only reveal the marginal impacts of changes in final demand. However, when economic shocks... |
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No. 2017/08 | 03 Nov 2017 |
Using Crunchbase for economic and managerial research
This note describes a new database on innovative start-ups and companies, called Crunchbase, with a focus on its potential for economic and managerial research. Crunchbase is rapidly being discovered by scholars from different fields. It has notably... |
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No. 2017/07 | 03 Nov 2017 |
Matching Crunchbase with patent data
This note describes a procedure to match companies and individuals listed in Crunchbase, a new database on innovative start-ups and companies, with patent applicants and inventors reported in PATSTAT, the worldwide intellectual property database... |
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No. 2017/06 | 16 Oct 2017 |
Frascati Manual R&D and the System of National Accounts
This working paper looks at the Frascati Manual (FM) framework for Research and Development (R&D) statistics and the System of National Accounts (SNA) framework of comprehensive economic accounts - giving an overview of their shared history and... |
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No. 2017/05 | 23 Jun 2017 |
Skills and global value chains
This study follows a job task-based approach to measure the skills of individuals. It exploits information contained in the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) and conducts an exploratory state-of-the-art factor analysis to obtain six task-based... |
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No. 2017/04 | 16 May 2017 |
The Multiprod project
This paper is a technical document, designed to serve as a reference document for subsequent papers arising out of MultiProd, a project of the Committee on Industry, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Working Party on Industry Analysis, aimed at... |
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No. 2017/03 | 05 May 2017 |
Having the right mix: The role of skill bundles for comparative advantage and industry performance in GVCs
This study investigates the role of countries’ skills endowment for comparative advantage. It tests the theoretical model of Ohnsorge and Trefler (2007) who argue that it is the bundling of various skills at the worker level and their joint... |
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No. 2017/02 | 25 Apr 2017 |
Inclusive innovation policies
Innovation policies are central to growth agendas in most countries, but have figured much less prominently in strategies to promote social inclusion. In recent years, many countries have implemented “inclusive innovation policies”– a specific set of... |
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No. 2017/01 | 18 Feb 2017 |
ICT: A new taxonomy based on the international patent classification
This work proposes a definition of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based on the technology classes of the International Patent Classification (IPC) in which patents are classified. This new taxonomy, called the “J tag”, aligns with... |
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No. 2016/07 | 20 Oct 2016 |
Hedonic Prices for Fixed Broadband Services
This paper sets out a framework to estimate quality-adjusted price levels and price changes for fixed broadband services in OECD countries. We extend and adapt existing hedonic frameworks for international and interarea comparisons and consider the... |
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No. 2016/06 | 11 Oct 2016 |
Impact of apprenticeships on individuals and firms
This review summarises existing studies evaluating the impact of apprenticeships on individuals and firms and provides a brief overview of relevant evaluations in three related policy areas: education; active labour market programmes; and private... |
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No. 2016/05 | 03 Sept 2016 |
Estimating CO2 Emissions Embodied in Final Demand and Trade Using the OECD ICIO 2015
Reliable carbon emissions statistics are essential for formulating responses to climate change including global negotiations such as those concluded in Kyoto in 1997 or recently in Paris at COP21. Typically, emissions statistics are compiled... |
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No. 2016/04 | 16 Jul 2016 |
OECD Taxonomy of Economic Activities Based on R&D Intensity
This paper provides a new taxonomy of industries according to their level of R&D intensity - the ratio of R&D to value added within an industry. Manufacturing and non-manufacturing activities are clustered into five groups (high, medium-high, medium,... |
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No. 2016/03 | 07 Jul 2016 |
Measuring the Link between Public Procurement and Innovation
This paper presents the findings of a recent OECD project on the measurement of the link between public procurement and innovation that is intended to contribute to the review and implementation of the OECD measurement frameworks for R&D and... |
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No. 2015/09 | 12 Oct 2015 |
Estimating Cross-Country Investment in Training
The present work proposes a novel methodology for the measurement of investment in human capital in the form of training. Differently from existing studies, the expenditures-based approach pursued encompasses investment in formal and on-the-job... |
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Multinational enterprises and global value chains
Charles Cadestin, Koen De Backer, Isabelle Desnoyers-James, Sébastien Miroudot, Ming Ye and Davide Rigo
26 Mar 2018
Because of their numerous and large activities across different countries, Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) are believed to be central and dominant actors in the global economy. In addition, it has been argued that the growing fragmentation of...
Gene editing in an international context
Anu Shukla-Jones, Steffi Friedrichs and David E. Winickoff
23 Mar 2018
Gene editing techniques represent a major advance in the field of biotechnological research and application, promising significant benefits across the domains of human health, sustainability and the economy. There is broad agreement that gene editing...
Industrial robotics and the global organisation of production
Koen De Backer, Timothy DeStefano, Carlo Menon and Jung Ran Suh
27 Feb 2018
Increased robot use, fuelled by price declines and the increased dexterity of these machines, is expected to affect existing/future production technologies and the organisation of production within GVCs. In order to safeguard their competitiveness in...
A portrait of innovative start-ups across countries
Stefano Breschi, Julie Lassébie and Carlo Menon
08 Feb 2018
The report presents new cross-country descriptive evidence on innovative start-ups and related venture capital investments drawing upon Crunchbase, a new dataset that is unprecedented in terms of scope and comprehensiveness. The analysis employs a...
Revised proposal for the revision of the statistical definitions of biotechnology and nanotechnology
Steffi Friedrichs and Brigitte van Beuzekom
18 Jan 2018
Agreement on a harmonised application of clear statistical definitions of technologies is pertinent to the delineation of technology fields both with regard to each other and within the context of wider economic developments. Biotechnology and...
Economic shocks and changes in global production structures
Yoshihiro Hashiguchi, Norihiko Yamano and Colin Webb
03 Nov 2017
Conventional studies on the impacts of economic shocks using global input-output tables (sensitivity analyses) assume stable production structures and thus, only reveal the marginal impacts of changes in final demand. However, when economic shocks...
Using Crunchbase for economic and managerial research
Jean-Michel Dalle, Matthijs den Besten and Carlo Menon
03 Nov 2017
This note describes a new database on innovative start-ups and companies, called Crunchbase, with a focus on its potential for economic and managerial research. Crunchbase is rapidly being discovered by scholars from different fields. It has notably...
Matching Crunchbase with patent data
Gianluca Tarasconi and Carlo Menon
03 Nov 2017
This note describes a procedure to match companies and individuals listed in Crunchbase, a new database on innovative start-ups and companies, with patent applicants and inventors reported in PATSTAT, the worldwide intellectual property database...
Frascati Manual R&D and the System of National Accounts
Daniel Ker and Fernando Galindo-Rueda
16 Oct 2017
This working paper looks at the Frascati Manual (FM) framework for Research and Development (R&D) statistics and the System of National Accounts (SNA) framework of comprehensive economic accounts - giving an overview of their shared history and...
Skills and global value chains
Robert Grundke, Stéphanie Jamet, Margarita Kalamova, François Keslair and Mariagrazia Squicciarini
23 Jun 2017
This study follows a job task-based approach to measure the skills of individuals. It exploits information contained in the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) and conducts an exploratory state-of-the-art factor analysis to obtain six task-based...
The Multiprod project
Giuseppe Berlingieri, Patrick Blanchenay, Sara Calligaris and Chiara Criscuolo
16 May 2017
This paper is a technical document, designed to serve as a reference document for subsequent papers arising out of MultiProd, a project of the Committee on Industry, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Working Party on Industry Analysis, aimed at...
Having the right mix: The role of skill bundles for comparative advantage and industry performance in GVCs
Robert Grundke, Stéphanie Jamet, Margarita Kalamova and Mariagrazia Squicciarini
05 May 2017
This study investigates the role of countries’ skills endowment for comparative advantage. It tests the theoretical model of Ohnsorge and Trefler (2007) who argue that it is the bundling of various skills at the worker level and their joint...
Inclusive innovation policies
Sandra Planes-Satorra and Caroline Paunov
25 Apr 2017
Innovation policies are central to growth agendas in most countries, but have figured much less prominently in strategies to promote social inclusion. In recent years, many countries have implemented “inclusive innovation policies”– a specific set of...
ICT: A new taxonomy based on the international patent classification
Takashi Inaba and Mariagrazia Squicciarini
18 Feb 2017
This work proposes a definition of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based on the technology classes of the International Patent Classification (IPC) in which patents are classified. This new taxonomy, called the “J tag”, aligns with...
Hedonic Prices for Fixed Broadband Services
Carol Corrado and Olga Ukhaneva
20 Oct 2016
This paper sets out a framework to estimate quality-adjusted price levels and price changes for fixed broadband services in OECD countries. We extend and adapt existing hedonic frameworks for international and interarea comparisons and consider the...
Impact of apprenticeships on individuals and firms
Matej Bajgar and Chiara Criscuolo
11 Oct 2016
This review summarises existing studies evaluating the impact of apprenticeships on individuals and firms and provides a brief overview of relevant evaluations in three related policy areas: education; active labour market programmes; and private...
Estimating CO2 Emissions Embodied in Final Demand and Trade Using the OECD ICIO 2015
Kirsten S. Wiebe and Norihiko Yamano
03 Sept 2016
Reliable carbon emissions statistics are essential for formulating responses to climate change including global negotiations such as those concluded in Kyoto in 1997 or recently in Paris at COP21. Typically, emissions statistics are compiled...
OECD Taxonomy of Economic Activities Based on R&D Intensity
Fernando Galindo-Rueda and Fabien Verger
16 Jul 2016
This paper provides a new taxonomy of industries according to their level of R&D intensity - the ratio of R&D to value added within an industry. Manufacturing and non-manufacturing activities are clustered into five groups (high, medium-high, medium,...
Measuring the Link between Public Procurement and Innovation
Silvia Appelt and Fernando Galindo-Rueda
07 Jul 2016
This paper presents the findings of a recent OECD project on the measurement of the link between public procurement and innovation that is intended to contribute to the review and implementation of the OECD measurement frameworks for R&D and...
Estimating Cross-Country Investment in Training
Mariagrazia Squicciarini, Luca Marcolin and Peter Horvát
12 Oct 2015
The present work proposes a novel methodology for the measurement of investment in human capital in the form of training. Differently from existing studies, the expenditures-based approach pursued encompasses investment in formal and on-the-job...