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No. 86 | 05 Mar 2020 |
Laggard firms, technology diffusion and its structural and policy determinants
This paper provides new evidence on the main characteristics of laggard firms - firms in the bottom 40% of the productivity distribution - and their potential for productivity growth. It finds that laggards are on average younger and smaller than... |
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No. 85 | 16 Dec 2019 |
On the concentration of innovation in top cities in the digital age
This paper investigates how digital technologies have shaped the concentration of inventive activity in cities across 30 OECD countries. It finds that patenting is highly concentrated: from 2010 to 2014, 10% of cities accounted for 64% of patent... |
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No. 84 | 17 Oct 2019 |
Governance of science and technology policies
This document provides learnings from 13 case studies on governance mechanisms of national and supranational science, technology and innovation initiatives. As countries strive to resolve societal challenges, “mission-oriented” approaches complement... |
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No. 83 | 17 Oct 2019 |
Policy initiatives for health and the bioeconomy
This document presents twelve policy initiatives supporting health and the bioeconomy from different OECD countries. The initiatives reviewed include: i) funding for public health centres that translate biomedical research into clinical research and... |
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No. 82 | 17 Oct 2019 |
Innovation support in the enterprise sector
This policy paper outlines major policy trends in public support of innovation activities in industry and SMEs across OECD countries. It discusses the policy mix to strengthen business R&D and innovation, and possible avenues to improve this mix in... |
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No. 81 | 17 Oct 2019 |
Policy initiatives to enhance the impact of public research
Policies to boost the impact of public research can be classified into three broad categories. Firstly, policy initiatives promoting research excellence encourage frontier research by providing large-scale, long-term competitive funding to selected... |
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No. 80 | 17 Oct 2019 |
Innovation policies for sustainable development
This monograph benchmarks innovation policies for sustainability, focusing on two key areas: low-carbon and environmental technologies, and “smart-city” initiatives in selected OECD countries as well as the European Union. Country coverage of... |
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No. 79 | 17 Oct 2019 |
Review of national policy initiatives in support of digital and AI-driven innovation
What can we learn from new policies implemented in different OECD countries to foster digital and AI-driven innovation? This document reviews and extracts lessons from 12 national policy initiatives (four AI strategies and eight policy programmes)... |
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No. 78 | 11 Oct 2019 |
Supporting research for sustainable development
This document presents nine innovation policy initiatives from different OECD countries that support research and innovation for sustainable development by embracing systemic solutions to address the challenge. The three types of initiatives reviewed... |
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No. 77 | 24 Sept 2019 |
Cross-country evidence on the contributions of research institutions to innovation
This paper presents preliminary evidence on the patenting activities of 21 200 research institutions - 20 091 higher education institutions (HEIs) and 1 109 public research institutes (PRIs) - for 36 OECD countries and China from 1992 to 2014. Our... |
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No. 76 | 05 Sept 2019 |
Innovation ecosystems in the bioeconomy
“Innovation ecosystems in the bioeconomy” examines the policy aspects of building the industrial and innovation ecosystems and value chains needed to make a bioeconomy viable as a sustainable means of production. While building biorefineries is more... |
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No. 75 | 01 Aug 2019 |
Ship finance practices in major shipbuilding economies
This report presents an overview and trends of the ship finance practices in major shipbuilding economies. Ship finance is a broad term that involves corporate financial management of shipping companies and shipyards as well as new-building finance.... |
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No. 74 | 18 Jul 2019 |
How are digital technologies changing innovation?
Digital technologies impact innovation in all sectors of the economy, including traditional ones such as agriculture, the automotive industry, and retail. Similar trends across sectors include that the Internet of Things and data are becoming key... |
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No. 73 | 18 Jun 2019 |
Levelling the playing field
This report investigates the gender gap in the funding of innovative start-ups across OECD and BRICS countries using a detailed micro-dataset on start-ups and their founders. Results from empirical analysis show that start-ups with at least one woman... |
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No. 72 | 14 May 2019 |
Structural adjustment, mass lay-offs and employment reallocation
This report investigates the factors associated with the intensity of “mass lay-offs” across countries and industries, controlling for the dynamics of overall employment. The results suggest that some important drivers of structural transformation... |
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No. 71 | 06 May 2019 |
The digital innovation policy landscape in 2019
How are OECD countries supporting digital innovation and ensuring that benefits spread across the economy? This paper explores the current landscape of strategies and initiatives implemented in OECD countries to support innovation in the digital age.... |
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No. 70 | 26 Apr 2019 |
Occupational mobility, skills and training needs
This work investigates how education and training policies may facilitate occupational transitions. It proposes a methodology to estimate cognitive and task-based skill distances across occupation. It identifies the occupational transitions that can... |
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No. 69 | 12 Apr 2019 |
Local content requirements and their economic effect on shipbuilding
This study quantifies the significant economic gains that are expected to be revealed through the abolition or relaxation of local content based policies. The work analyses two specific local content policies affecting directly or indirectly the... |
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No. 68 | 12 Apr 2019 |
Ship recycling
This report includes an overview of the ship recycling market by providing descriptive statistics, describing the determinants for the decision of ship-owners to demolish vessels, and elaborating on the main market players and the economics of ship... |
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No. 67 | 12 Apr 2019 |
An analysis of market-distorting factors in shipbuilding
This report analyses market-distorting factors in the shipbuilding industry with a focus on government interventions. This paper argues that government interventions in this cyclical industry do more harm than good by exacerbating and prolonging... |
OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers
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Laggard firms, technology diffusion and its structural and policy determinants
Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris, Chiara Criscuolo and Rudy Verlhac
05 Mar 2020
This paper provides new evidence on the main characteristics of laggard firms - firms in the bottom 40% of the productivity distribution - and their potential for productivity growth. It finds that laggards are on average younger and smaller than...
On the concentration of innovation in top cities in the digital age
Caroline Paunov, Dominique Guellec, Nevine El-Mallakh, Sandra Planes-Satorra and Lukas Nüse
16 Dec 2019
This paper investigates how digital technologies have shaped the concentration of inventive activity in cities across 30 OECD countries. It finds that patenting is highly concentrated: from 2010 to 2014, 10% of cities accounted for 64% of patent...
Governance of science and technology policies
Alan Paic and Camille Viros
17 Oct 2019
This document provides learnings from 13 case studies on governance mechanisms of national and supranational science, technology and innovation initiatives. As countries strive to resolve societal challenges, “mission-oriented” approaches complement...
Policy initiatives for health and the bioeconomy
Martin Borowiecki and James Philp
17 Oct 2019
This document presents twelve policy initiatives supporting health and the bioeconomy from different OECD countries. The initiatives reviewed include: i) funding for public health centres that translate biomedical research into clinical research and...
Innovation support in the enterprise sector
Gernot Hutschenreiter, Johannes Weber and Christian Rammer
17 Oct 2019
This policy paper outlines major policy trends in public support of innovation activities in industry and SMEs across OECD countries. It discusses the policy mix to strengthen business R&D and innovation, and possible avenues to improve this mix in...
Policy initiatives to enhance the impact of public research
José Guimón
17 Oct 2019
Policies to boost the impact of public research can be classified into three broad categories. Firstly, policy initiatives promoting research excellence encourage frontier research by providing large-scale, long-term competitive funding to selected...
Innovation policies for sustainable development
Diogo Machado, Yilong Qu and Mario Cervantes
17 Oct 2019
This monograph benchmarks innovation policies for sustainability, focusing on two key areas: low-carbon and environmental technologies, and “smart-city” initiatives in selected OECD countries as well as the European Union. Country coverage of...
Review of national policy initiatives in support of digital and AI-driven innovation
Caroline Paunov, Sandra Planes-Satorra and Greta Ravelli
17 Oct 2019
What can we learn from new policies implemented in different OECD countries to foster digital and AI-driven innovation? This document reviews and extracts lessons from 12 national policy initiatives (four AI strategies and eight policy programmes)...
Supporting research for sustainable development
Martin Borowiecki, Diogo Machado, Caroline Paunov and Sandra Planes-Satorra
11 Oct 2019
This document presents nine innovation policy initiatives from different OECD countries that support research and innovation for sustainable development by embracing systemic solutions to address the challenge. The three types of initiatives reviewed...
Cross-country evidence on the contributions of research institutions to innovation
Caroline Paunov, Martin Borowiecki and Nevine El-Mallakh
24 Sept 2019
This paper presents preliminary evidence on the patenting activities of 21 200 research institutions - 20 091 higher education institutions (HEIs) and 1 109 public research institutes (PRIs) - for 36 OECD countries and China from 1992 to 2014. Our...
Innovation ecosystems in the bioeconomy
Jim Philp and David Winickoff
05 Sept 2019
“Innovation ecosystems in the bioeconomy” examines the policy aspects of building the industrial and innovation ecosystems and value chains needed to make a bioeconomy viable as a sustainable means of production. While building biorefineries is more...
Ship finance practices in major shipbuilding economies
Laurent Daniel and Cenk Yildiran
01 Aug 2019
This report presents an overview and trends of the ship finance practices in major shipbuilding economies. Ship finance is a broad term that involves corporate financial management of shipping companies and shipyards as well as new-building finance....
How are digital technologies changing innovation?
Caroline Paunov and Sandra Planes-Satorra
18 Jul 2019
Digital technologies impact innovation in all sectors of the economy, including traditional ones such as agriculture, the automotive industry, and retail. Similar trends across sectors include that the Internet of Things and data are becoming key...
Levelling the playing field
Julie Lassébie, Sahra Sakha, Tomasz Kozluk, Carlo Menon, Stefano Breschi and Nick Johnstone
18 Jun 2019
This report investigates the gender gap in the funding of innovative start-ups across OECD and BRICS countries using a detailed micro-dataset on start-ups and their founders. Results from empirical analysis show that start-ups with at least one woman...
Structural adjustment, mass lay-offs and employment reallocation
Filipe Silva, Carlo Menon, Paolo Falco and Duncan MacDonald
14 May 2019
This report investigates the factors associated with the intensity of “mass lay-offs” across countries and industries, controlling for the dynamics of overall employment. The results suggest that some important drivers of structural transformation...
The digital innovation policy landscape in 2019
Sandra Planes-Satorra and Caroline Paunov
06 May 2019
How are OECD countries supporting digital innovation and ensuring that benefits spread across the economy? This paper explores the current landscape of strategies and initiatives implemented in OECD countries to support innovation in the digital age....
Occupational mobility, skills and training needs
Nagui Bechichi, Stéphanie Jamet, Gustave Kenedi, Robert Grundke and Mariagrazia Squicciarini
26 Apr 2019
This work investigates how education and training policies may facilitate occupational transitions. It proposes a methodology to estimate cognitive and task-based skill distances across occupation. It identifies the occupational transitions that can...
Local content requirements and their economic effect on shipbuilding
Karin Gourdon and Joaquim Guilhoto
12 Apr 2019
This study quantifies the significant economic gains that are expected to be revealed through the abolition or relaxation of local content based policies. The work analyses two specific local content policies affecting directly or indirectly the...
Ship recycling
Karin Gourdon
12 Apr 2019
This report includes an overview of the ship recycling market by providing descriptive statistics, describing the determinants for the decision of ship-owners to demolish vessels, and elaborating on the main market players and the economics of ship...
An analysis of market-distorting factors in shipbuilding
Karin Gourdon
12 Apr 2019
This report analyses market-distorting factors in the shipbuilding industry with a focus on government interventions. This paper argues that government interventions in this cyclical industry do more harm than good by exacerbating and prolonging...