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No. 1 | 04 Apr 2013 |
What Drives the Dynamics of Business Growth?
Differences in the dynamisms of economies are persistent. Notwithstanding the growing body of evidence documenting these large cross-country differences, our understanding of what drives them is still rather limited. This paper seeks to help close... |
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No. 2 | 05 Apr 2013 |
Beyond Industrial Policy
This paper reviews the evidence on emerging thinking and new trends in the sphere of industrial policy. The paper adopts a broad and inclusive definition of industrial policy, and proposes a new typology based on the orientation of policy and the... |
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No. 3 | 10 Apr 2013 |
Biotechnology for the Environment in the Future
There are at least two policy regimes to be considered, one for environmental biotechnology, and another for industrial biotech. Environmental biotechnology is focused on biotechnologies for environmental clean-up, and much of the policy in this area... |
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No. 4 | 24 Apr 2013 |
Regulatory Frameworks for Nanotechnology in Foods and Medical Products
Nanotechnology applications have been reported across a number of specific product areas including foods and medical products, which are subject to regulatory oversight in many countries to ensure their safety and, in some cases, effectiveness. As... |
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No. 6 | 14 Jun 2013 |
Emerging Trends in Biomedicine and Health Technology Innovation
The economic and social impact of chronic brain disorders (CBD) such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases will become the number one public-health problem worldwide, directly affecting 100 million people by 2050. On-going... |
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No. 5 | 14 Jun 2013 |
Nanotechnology for Green Innovation
The paper brings together information collected through discussions and projects undertaken by the OECD Working Party on Nanotechnology (WPN) relevant to the development and use of nanotechnology for green innovation. It relies in particular on... |
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No. 7 | 19 Jun 2013 |
Knowledge Networks and Markets
This report aims to shed light on the role of markets and networks for knowledge-based assets. Knowledge Networks and Markets (KNMs) comprise the wide array of mechanisms and institutions facilitating the creation, exchange, dissemination and... |
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No. 8 | 02 Aug 2013 |
Public Health in an Age of Genomics
This report presents the findings of a research project to investigate the drivers and criteria shaping the application of genomic biotechnology to health in different national settings, and the barriers to implementation nationally and... |
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No. 9 | 25 Oct 2013 |
Policies for Seed and Early Stage Finance
This report highlights the growth in support for financial instruments for seed and early stage firms across OECD member countries. These instruments include grants, loans and guarantee schemes, tax incentives and equity funds. This increased support... |
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No. 10 | 28 Oct 2013 |
Policies for Bioplastics in the Context of a Bioeconomy
This paper explores the development of the bioplastics sector and its role in national bioeconomy strategies. It finds that bioplastics are at a disadvantage compared to some other biobased products, notably biofuels, that often benefit from... |
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No. 11 | 05 Dec 2013 |
Toward New Models for Innovative Governance of Biomedicine and Health Technologies
This report examines examples of new and emerging governance models that aim to support the responsible development of diagnostics and treatments based on the latest advances in biomedicine. In particular, it presents programmes and initiatives that... |
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No. 12 | 24 Jan 2014 |
Workshop on Integrating Omics and Policy for Healthy Ageing
The increase in the human life span is a testament to the economic, social and medical progress made over the course of the last century. However, an ageing population brings some new challenges both to healthcare systems and to medicine in terms of... |
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No. 13 | 14 Feb 2014 |
Intelligent Demand: Policy Rationale, Design and Potential Benefits
Policy interest in demand-side initiatives has grown in recent years. This may reflect an expectation that demand-side policy could be particularly effective in steering innovation to meet societal needs. In addition, owing to constrained public... |
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No. 14 | 21 May 2014 |
The Dynamics of Employment Growth
Motivated by the ongoing interest of policy makers in the sources of job creation, this paper presents results from a new OECD project on the dynamics of employment (DynEmp) based on an innovative methodology using firm-level data (i.e. national... |
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No. 15 | 01 Jul 2014 |
New Investment Approaches for Addressing Social and Economic Challenges
This paper aims to provide an introduction to and overview of the social investment market for policy makers in OECD and non-OECD countries. Social investment is the provision of finance to organisations with the explicit expectation of a social, as... |
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No. 16 | 03 Jul 2014 |
Evaluation of Industrial Policy
Industrial policy, broadly defined, covers a multitude of policy instruments and approaches. While there has been a recent revival of interest in industrial policy around the world, systematic evidence of efficacy is relatively scarce. This report... |
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No. 17 | 29 Sept 2014 |
Biobased Chemicals and Bioplastics
As OECD countries emerge from the global financial crisis, several countries have published their plans for the development of a future bioeconomy, an economy in which bio-based materials and production techniques will contribute significantly to... |
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No. 18 | 20 Feb 2015 |
Excess Capacity in the Global Steel Industry and the Implications of New Investment Projects
This paper examines the extent, reasons and impacts of excess capacity in the global steel industry, as well as the implications of new investment projects that continue to take place at a rapid pace in many parts of the world. By focussing on new... |
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No. 19 | 23 Feb 2015 |
'Manufacturing or Services - That is (not) the Question'
Manufacturing features again high on the policy agenda in a lot of OECD countries. While deindustrialisation and offshoring have dominated the news about manufacturing during the past decades, recent years have witnessed a number of examples of... |
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No. 20 | 09 Apr 2015 |
Public-private Partnerships in Biomedical Research and Health Innovation for Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), through its Working Party on Biotechnology, undertook a project on “Healthy Ageing and Biomedical Innovation for Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease”. The project was conducted under... |
OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers
English
- ISSN: 23074957 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/23074957
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What Drives the Dynamics of Business Growth?
Albert Bravo-Biosca, Chiara Criscuolo and Carlo Menon
04 Apr 2013
Differences in the dynamisms of economies are persistent. Notwithstanding the growing body of evidence documenting these large cross-country differences, our understanding of what drives them is still rather limited. This paper seeks to help close...
Beyond Industrial Policy
Ken Warwick
05 Apr 2013
This paper reviews the evidence on emerging thinking and new trends in the sphere of industrial policy. The paper adopts a broad and inclusive definition of industrial policy, and proposes a new typology based on the orientation of policy and the...
Biotechnology for the Environment in the Future
OECD
10 Apr 2013
There are at least two policy regimes to be considered, one for environmental biotechnology, and another for industrial biotech. Environmental biotechnology is focused on biotechnologies for environmental clean-up, and much of the policy in this area...
Nanotechnology applications have been reported across a number of specific product areas including foods and medical products, which are subject to regulatory oversight in many countries to ensure their safety and, in some cases, effectiveness. As...
Emerging Trends in Biomedicine and Health Technology Innovation
OECD
14 Jun 2013
The economic and social impact of chronic brain disorders (CBD) such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases will become the number one public-health problem worldwide, directly affecting 100 million people by 2050. On-going...
Nanotechnology for Green Innovation
OECD
14 Jun 2013
The paper brings together information collected through discussions and projects undertaken by the OECD Working Party on Nanotechnology (WPN) relevant to the development and use of nanotechnology for green innovation. It relies in particular on...
Knowledge Networks and Markets
OECD
19 Jun 2013
This report aims to shed light on the role of markets and networks for knowledge-based assets. Knowledge Networks and Markets (KNMs) comprise the wide array of mechanisms and institutions facilitating the creation, exchange, dissemination and...
Public Health in an Age of Genomics
OECD
02 Aug 2013
This report presents the findings of a research project to investigate the drivers and criteria shaping the application of genomic biotechnology to health in different national settings, and the barriers to implementation nationally and...
Policies for Seed and Early Stage Finance
Karen E. Wilson and Filipe Silva
25 Oct 2013
This report highlights the growth in support for financial instruments for seed and early stage firms across OECD member countries. These instruments include grants, loans and guarantee schemes, tax incentives and equity funds. This increased support...
Policies for Bioplastics in the Context of a Bioeconomy
OECD
28 Oct 2013
This paper explores the development of the bioplastics sector and its role in national bioeconomy strategies. It finds that bioplastics are at a disadvantage compared to some other biobased products, notably biofuels, that often benefit from...
This report examines examples of new and emerging governance models that aim to support the responsible development of diagnostics and treatments based on the latest advances in biomedicine. In particular, it presents programmes and initiatives that...
Workshop on Integrating Omics and Policy for Healthy Ageing
OECD
24 Jan 2014
The increase in the human life span is a testament to the economic, social and medical progress made over the course of the last century. However, an ageing population brings some new challenges both to healthcare systems and to medicine in terms of...
Intelligent Demand: Policy Rationale, Design and Potential Benefits
OECD
14 Feb 2014
Policy interest in demand-side initiatives has grown in recent years. This may reflect an expectation that demand-side policy could be particularly effective in steering innovation to meet societal needs. In addition, owing to constrained public...
The Dynamics of Employment Growth
Chiara Criscuolo, Peter N. Gal and Carlo Menon
21 May 2014
Motivated by the ongoing interest of policy makers in the sources of job creation, this paper presents results from a new OECD project on the dynamics of employment (DynEmp) based on an innovative methodology using firm-level data (i.e. national...
New Investment Approaches for Addressing Social and Economic Challenges
Karen E. Wilson
01 Jul 2014
This paper aims to provide an introduction to and overview of the social investment market for policy makers in OECD and non-OECD countries. Social investment is the provision of finance to organisations with the explicit expectation of a social, as...
Evaluation of Industrial Policy
Ken Warwick and Alistair Nolan
03 Jul 2014
Industrial policy, broadly defined, covers a multitude of policy instruments and approaches. While there has been a recent revival of interest in industrial policy around the world, systematic evidence of efficacy is relatively scarce. This report...
Biobased Chemicals and Bioplastics
OECD
29 Sept 2014
As OECD countries emerge from the global financial crisis, several countries have published their plans for the development of a future bioeconomy, an economy in which bio-based materials and production techniques will contribute significantly to...
Excess Capacity in the Global Steel Industry and the Implications of New Investment Projects
OECD
20 Feb 2015
This paper examines the extent, reasons and impacts of excess capacity in the global steel industry, as well as the implications of new investment projects that continue to take place at a rapid pace in many parts of the world. By focussing on new...
'Manufacturing or Services - That is (not) the Question'
Koen De Backer, Isabelle Desnoyers-James and Laurent Moussiegt
23 Feb 2015
Manufacturing features again high on the policy agenda in a lot of OECD countries. While deindustrialisation and offshoring have dominated the news about manufacturing during the past decades, recent years have witnessed a number of examples of...
Public-private Partnerships in Biomedical Research and Health Innovation for Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias
OECD
09 Apr 2015
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), through its Working Party on Biotechnology, undertook a project on “Healthy Ageing and Biomedical Innovation for Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease”. The project was conducted under...