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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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... |
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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
'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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...