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No. 46 | 30 Nov 2017 |
Neurotechnology and society
Large-scale research and development programmes in neuroscience are giving rise to a host of new approaches, techniques and capacities to understand, read and intervene in the human brain. Some of these technologies reframe how we understand mental... |
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No. 45 | 17 Nov 2017 |
What role for social sciences in innovation?
Knowledge transfer between industry and science is fundamental to innovation. There are important differences across scientific disciplines and sectors of activity in that, for instance, the financial and pharmaceutical sectors have different demands... |
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No. 44 | 19 Oct 2017 |
Investing in innovation and skills
This paper synthesises the main policy implications of OECD work focusing on the interplay between participation and positioning in global value chains (GVCs), employment demand and supply and workforce’s skills endowment. They relate to: the way... |
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No. 43 | 26 Sept 2017 |
Marine biotechnology
Several countries have been setting up strategic roadmaps to support marine biotechnologies that could drive innovation and help address the global sustainability goals of food, energy, and health. The report identifies and begins to address... |
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No. 42 | 22 Sept 2017 |
The Microbiome, diet and health
There is now strong evidence that microbiomes play an important role in human health, as there are clear linkages to many of the major non-communicable diseases. This report assesses the key policy challenges for innovation in the microbiome.... |
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No. 41 | 11 Jul 2017 |
The future of global value chains
The rapid growth of global value chains (GVCs) has been an important driver of globalisation during the past decades. But the international fragmentation of production appears to have lost momentum and GVCs seem to have stalled in recent years. The... |
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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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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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Neurotechnology and society
OECD
30 Nov 2017
Large-scale research and development programmes in neuroscience are giving rise to a host of new approaches, techniques and capacities to understand, read and intervene in the human brain. Some of these technologies reframe how we understand mental...
What role for social sciences in innovation?
Caroline Paunov, Sandra Planes-Satorra and Tadanori Moriguchi
17 Nov 2017
Knowledge transfer between industry and science is fundamental to innovation. There are important differences across scientific disciplines and sectors of activity in that, for instance, the financial and pharmaceutical sectors have different demands...
Investing in innovation and skills
Luca Marcolin and Mariagrazia Squicciarini
19 Oct 2017
This paper synthesises the main policy implications of OECD work focusing on the interplay between participation and positioning in global value chains (GVCs), employment demand and supply and workforce’s skills endowment. They relate to: the way...
Marine biotechnology
OECD
26 Sept 2017
Several countries have been setting up strategic roadmaps to support marine biotechnologies that could drive innovation and help address the global sustainability goals of food, energy, and health. The report identifies and begins to address...
The Microbiome, diet and health
OECD
22 Sept 2017
There is now strong evidence that microbiomes play an important role in human health, as there are clear linkages to many of the major non-communicable diseases. This report assesses the key policy challenges for innovation in the microbiome....
The future of global value chains
Koen De Backer and Dorothee Flaig
11 Jul 2017
The rapid growth of global value chains (GVCs) has been an important driver of globalisation during the past decades. But the international fragmentation of production appears to have lost momentum and GVCs seem to have stalled in recent years. The...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...