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No. 21 | 20 Apr 2015 |
Scientific Advice for Policy Making
The scientific community is increasingly being called upon to provide evidence and advice to government policy-makers across a range of issues, from short-term public health emergencies through to longer-term challenges, such as population ageing or... |
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No. 22 | 22 Apr 2015 |
Enhancing Translational Research and Clinical Development for Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias
Accelerating innovation for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias is a key challenge. Over the past few years, the OECD has conducted work in a number of areas related to innovation in biomedical research and health innovation for healthy ageing.... |
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No. 23 | 18 Jun 2015 |
Triple and Quadruple Play Bundles of Communication Services
This report examines the provision of multiple communication services over broadband access networks, a phenomenon known as “bundling”. It highlights that care should be taken to ensure that such offers do not unreasonably constrain competition or... |
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No. 24 | 24 Jun 2015 |
Policy Lessons from Financing Innovative Firms
There has been increasing global concern from policy makers over the lack of access to finance for young innovative firms. As a result, governments in many OECD countries have sought to address the financing gap and perceived market failures by... |
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No. 25 | 15 Oct 2015 |
Making Open Science a Reality
Open science commonly refers to efforts to make the output of publicly funded research more widely accessible in digital format to the scientific community, the business sector, or society more generally. Open science is the encounter between the... |
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No. 26 | 25 Nov 2015 |
Development of High-speed Networks and the Role of Municipal Networks
All OECD countries recognise the benefits that stem from high speed broadband networks and have made tremendous progress in recent years in fostering their deployment. Nonetheless, many challenges remain in terms of how to enhance and expand these... |
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No. 27 | 26 Jan 2016 |
Reshoring: Myth or Reality?
The news that companies in OECD economies are increasingly bringing manufacturing activities back home has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. Headline cases of a number of large multinational companies have given increased visibility to... |
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No. 28 | 25 Mar 2016 |
Environmental Policy and Technological Innovation in Shipbuilding
This paper examines the relationship between environmental policy and “green” innovation in shipbuilding. The primary motivating question of this work is whether there is evidence of: i) technology push from innovation that enables environmental... |
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No. 29 | 01 Apr 2016 |
No Country for Young Firms?
This paper provides new cross-country evidence on the links between national policies and the growth patterns of start-ups. In particular, it compares for the first time the heterogeneous effects of national policies on entrants and incumbents,... |
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No. 30 | 12 Jul 2016 |
Where to Locate Innovative Activities in Global Value Chains
With the emergence of global value chains (GVCs), production processes are increasingly fragmented and dispersed across different countries. Although many MNEs still exhibit an important ‘home bias’ in their global innovation activities, a growing... |
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No. 31 | 09 Sept 2016 |
Global Action to Drive Innovation in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias
Policymakers and the research community have an integral leadership role to foster collaborative efforts to deliver the best available science for evidence based policies and approval processes. The second Lausanne Workshop of December 2015 reviewed... |
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No. 32 | 10 Sept 2016 |
R&D Tax Incentives: Evidence on design, incidence and impacts
This policy paper provides an overview of OECD work on measuring the extent and impact of public support for R&D through tax incentives. It discusses the policy rationale for tax incentives in the broader context of public support for business R&D,... |
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No. 33 | 22 Sept 2016 |
Drivers and Implications of Scientific Open Access Publishing
This paper presents the results of a new and experimental study on the research and publishing activities of scientific authors. It also aimed to test the feasibility of an OECD global survey on science with a focus on major emerging policy issues.... |
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No. 34 | 08 Nov 2016 |
Research Ethics and New Forms of Data for Social and Economic Research
This report sets out some basic rules that underpin an ethical approach to research using new forms of data for social and economic research. These rules and the interpretation that we place upon them give rise to a set of recommendations designed to... |
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No. 35 | 22 Dec 2016 |
OECD Evaluation Framework for Modern Apprenticeships in Scotland
This evaluation framework sets out recommendations for evaluating Modern Apprenticeships in Scotland. It discusses the evaluation activities to carry out, the outcomes to examine, the data to use and the methods to apply. It also sets the... |
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No. 36 | 20 Jan 2017 |
Use of Behavioural Insights in Consumer Policy
Over the past decade, behavioural insights have helped make consumer policies more evidence-based and effective. This report examines how behavioural insights have been used by governments and other public policy organisations to develop and... |
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No. 37 | 10 Apr 2017 |
The links between global value chains and global innovation networks
Economic globalisation has given rise to two types of networks that stretch out across OECD and emerging economies. At the one side, global value chains (GVCs) can be thought of as the “material” transfers of goods and services (final as well as... |
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No. 38 | 21 Apr 2017 |
Making policy evaluation work
The paper presents a critical discussion of ex-post impact evaluation of policies that affect regional economic development, with a particular emphasis on drawing useful implications for policy making. In particular, it discusses the importance of... |
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No. 39 | 12 May 2017 |
The great divergence(s)
This report provides new evidence on the increasing dispersion in wages and productivity using novel micro-aggregated firm-level data from 16 countries. First, the report documents an increase in wage and productivity dispersions, for both... |
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No. 40 | 07 Jun 2017 |
Determinants of digital technology use by companies
Advances in digital technologies are transforming the way firms function, how they are structured and the manner in which they compete. This paper contributes to our understanding of digital technology usage by assessing changing patterns in the use... |
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Scientific Advice for Policy Making
OECD
20 Apr 2015
The scientific community is increasingly being called upon to provide evidence and advice to government policy-makers across a range of issues, from short-term public health emergencies through to longer-term challenges, such as population ageing or...
Enhancing Translational Research and Clinical Development for Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias
OECD
22 Apr 2015
Accelerating innovation for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias is a key challenge. Over the past few years, the OECD has conducted work in a number of areas related to innovation in biomedical research and health innovation for healthy ageing....
Triple and Quadruple Play Bundles of Communication Services
OECD
18 Jun 2015
This report examines the provision of multiple communication services over broadband access networks, a phenomenon known as “bundling”. It highlights that care should be taken to ensure that such offers do not unreasonably constrain competition or...
Policy Lessons from Financing Innovative Firms
Karen E. Wilson
24 Jun 2015
There has been increasing global concern from policy makers over the lack of access to finance for young innovative firms. As a result, governments in many OECD countries have sought to address the financing gap and perceived market failures by...
Making Open Science a Reality
OECD
15 Oct 2015
Open science commonly refers to efforts to make the output of publicly funded research more widely accessible in digital format to the scientific community, the business sector, or society more generally. Open science is the encounter between the...
Development of High-speed Networks and the Role of Municipal Networks
Bengt G. Mölleryd
25 Nov 2015
All OECD countries recognise the benefits that stem from high speed broadband networks and have made tremendous progress in recent years in fostering their deployment. Nonetheless, many challenges remain in terms of how to enhance and expand these...
Reshoring: Myth or Reality?
Koen De Backer, Carlo Menon, Isabelle Desnoyers-James and Laurent Moussiegt
26 Jan 2016
The news that companies in OECD economies are increasingly bringing manufacturing activities back home has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. Headline cases of a number of large multinational companies have given increased visibility to...
Environmental Policy and Technological Innovation in Shipbuilding
James J. Corbett, Nick Johnstone, Karin Strodel and Laurent Daniel
25 Mar 2016
This paper examines the relationship between environmental policy and “green” innovation in shipbuilding. The primary motivating question of this work is whether there is evidence of: i) technology push from innovation that enables environmental...
No Country for Young Firms?
Flavio Calvino, Chiara Criscuolo and Carlo Menon
01 Apr 2016
This paper provides new cross-country evidence on the links between national policies and the growth patterns of start-ups. In particular, it compares for the first time the heterogeneous effects of national policies on entrants and incumbents,...
Where to Locate Innovative Activities in Global Value Chains
Rene Belderbos, Leo Sleuwaegen, Dieter Somers and Koen De Backer
12 Jul 2016
With the emergence of global value chains (GVCs), production processes are increasingly fragmented and dispersed across different countries. Although many MNEs still exhibit an important ‘home bias’ in their global innovation activities, a growing...
Policymakers and the research community have an integral leadership role to foster collaborative efforts to deliver the best available science for evidence based policies and approval processes. The second Lausanne Workshop of December 2015 reviewed...
R&D Tax Incentives: Evidence on design, incidence and impacts
Silvia Appelt, Matej Bajgar, Chiara Criscuolo and Fernando Galindo-Rueda
10 Sept 2016
This policy paper provides an overview of OECD work on measuring the extent and impact of public support for R&D through tax incentives. It discusses the policy rationale for tax incentives in the broader context of public support for business R&D,...
Drivers and Implications of Scientific Open Access Publishing
Brunella Boselli and Fernando Galindo-Rueda
22 Sept 2016
This paper presents the results of a new and experimental study on the research and publishing activities of scientific authors. It also aimed to test the feasibility of an OECD global survey on science with a focus on major emerging policy issues....
This report sets out some basic rules that underpin an ethical approach to research using new forms of data for social and economic research. These rules and the interpretation that we place upon them give rise to a set of recommendations designed to...
OECD Evaluation Framework for Modern Apprenticeships in Scotland
Matej Bajgar and Chiara Criscuolo
22 Dec 2016
This evaluation framework sets out recommendations for evaluating Modern Apprenticeships in Scotland. It discusses the evaluation activities to carry out, the outcomes to examine, the data to use and the methods to apply. It also sets the...
Use of Behavioural Insights in Consumer Policy
OECD
20 Jan 2017
Over the past decade, behavioural insights have helped make consumer policies more evidence-based and effective. This report examines how behavioural insights have been used by governments and other public policy organisations to develop and...
The links between global value chains and global innovation networks
OECD
10 Apr 2017
Economic globalisation has given rise to two types of networks that stretch out across OECD and emerging economies. At the one side, global value chains (GVCs) can be thought of as the “material” transfers of goods and services (final as well as...
Making policy evaluation work
OECD
21 Apr 2017
The paper presents a critical discussion of ex-post impact evaluation of policies that affect regional economic development, with a particular emphasis on drawing useful implications for policy making. In particular, it discusses the importance of...
The great divergence(s)
Giuseppe Berlingieri, Patrick Blanchenay and Chiara Criscuolo
12 May 2017
This report provides new evidence on the increasing dispersion in wages and productivity using novel micro-aggregated firm-level data from 16 countries. First, the report documents an increase in wage and productivity dispersions, for both...
Determinants of digital technology use by companies
Timothy DeStefano, Koen De Backer and Laurent Moussiegt
07 Jun 2017
Advances in digital technologies are transforming the way firms function, how they are structured and the manner in which they compete. This paper contributes to our understanding of digital technology usage by assessing changing patterns in the use...