On associe souvent les pays de l’OCDE à des « sociétés en réseau » et cette évolution conduit à s’interroger sur le rôle des réseaux éducatifs. D’aucuns, comme le Professeur Michael Barber dans ce volume, prédisent l’effondrement des grands services publics, dont...

Too many workers leave the labour market permanently due to health problems, and yet too many people with a disabling condition are denied the opportunity to work. This second report in the OECD series Sickness, Disability and Work explores the possible factors behind this paradox. It looks...

OECD countries are increasingly referred to as "network societies". This prompts questions about educational networks: to what extent can they replace cumbersome bureaucracies as forms of management and as sources of innovation and professionalism? Some predict the demise of large, slow-changing...

The competitiveness of firms in a global economic environment is an essential element in development strategy, but simply creating an open economy will not suffice to stimulate competitiveness if innovation is lacking. This is the major finding of this cross-country and multi-industry study...

This publication examines the innovation system in pharmaceutical biotechnology in eight OECD countries - Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway and Spain. The report summarises the results of in-depth studies, providing a comparative analysis of participating...

What are the specific characteristics of innovation in pharmaceutical biotechnology? How do biopharmaceutical innovation systems in OECD countries perform and which policies are suitable to foster performance?. This publication examines the innovation system in pharmaceutical biotechnology in...