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The urgency of tackling COVID-19 has led governments in many countries to launch a number of short-notice and fast-tracked initiatives (e.g. calls for research proposals). Without proper co-ordination amongst ministries and agencies, they run the risk of duplicating efforts or missing...
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This brief explores the role of digital trade in helping to mitigate some of the consequences of COVID-19. It highlights how trade facilitates access to the goods and services that enable the digital transformation, and underscores the importance of digital trade and related policies in...
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, business, civil society, the technical community and academia to discuss how to encourage digital security innovation …. Participants explored the roles that different stakeholders can play in stimulating digital security innovation, including how … enacting flexible and outcome-based regulation. A digital security innovation ecosystem is the most important component of a …
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Well-timed and targeted innovation boosts productivity, increases economic growth and helps solve societal problems … innovative? The OECD Innovation Strategy provides a set of principles to spur innovation in people, firms and government. It … takes an in-depth look at the scope of innovation and how it is changing, as well as where and how it is occurring, based on …
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COVID‑19 hit the long-term care sector hard. This brief looks at mortality rates in care homes, as well as the policy responses undertaken during the pandemic. The brief assesses the emergency preparedness of the sector and highlights the lessons learned, including policies to reduce...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has wide implications for the socio-economic fabric worldwide. In addition to health fears, citizens are facing a host of financial uncertainties stemming from the temporary closure of businesses, schools, public facilities and quarantines, as well as instability in the...
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Health systems continue to adapt to cope with the COVID‑19 pandemic. Much focus has been placed on the scaling-up of hospital capacities. However, the pandemic is also deeply affecting the health of many people who are not infected by the virus. People living with chronic conditions are not...
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Unprecedented measures imposed or recommended by governments, including travel restrictions and curtailment of business operations, have been in effect in most jurisdictions in various forms and stages during most of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and this situation continues in 2021. This...
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The coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis presents exceptional challenges across all aspects of public policy. Within the … context of science, technology and innovation (STI), governments are increasingly seeking to draw on society’s full potential … for innovation, using collective intelligence. By efficiently harnessing the knowledge and expertise of groups, and …
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