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Costa Rica : boosting productivity to sustain income convergence
Pisu, Mauro - 2016
In the latest 30 years, Costa Rica's real GDP per capita has more than doubled, driven by increasing labour utilisation. Labour productivity has instead stagnated at around 30% of the more advanced OECD countries. Productivity growth has been lacklustre despite the opening up of markets to...
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Boosting productivity in Finland
André, Christophe; Chalaux, Thomas - 2016
Boosting productivity growth is necessary to raise living standards and well-being for all. Aggregate productivity has fallen, mainly driven by manufacturing, although service industries have also tended to underperform. Reviving productivity requires improving framework conditions further so...
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Creating good conditions for innovation-driven productivity gains in Australia
Hemmings, Philip J.; Park, Taejin - 2017
Innovation is key to boosting Australia’s productivity and inclusiveness. This paper examines the policies that create good conditions for innovation, not only in science and technology but also wider forms, such as business-model innovation. Competition and flexible markets are particularly...
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Boosting R&D outcomes in Australia
Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; Park, Taejin - 2017
R&D activity can play a central role in raising productivity. Australia compares well in terms of research excellence. However, there is scope for better translation of publicly funded research into commercial outcomes. Strengthening incentives for collaborative research is essential. A simpler...
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The digital innovation policy landscape in 2019
Planes-Satorra, Sandra; Paunov, Caroline - 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. It identifies common trends and differences...
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Review of national policy initiatives in support of digital and AI-driven innovation
Paunov, Caroline; Planes-Satorra, Sandra; Ravelli, Greta - 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) aimed at supporting breakthrough digital and...
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OECD 2017 OURdata Index : methodology and results
Lafortune, Guillaume; Ubaldi, Barbara - 2018
This paper presents the methodological process and results of the OECD 2017 Open-Useful-Reusable Government data Index (OURdata Index). It is meant to present the methodology and outline the data collection and verification process; discuss key findings of the composite indicators including...
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Trends in water-related technological innovation : insights from patent data
Leflaive, Xavier; Krieble, Ben; Smythe, Harry - 2020
Innovation has a role to play to mitigate water-related risks and to support the provision of water services on which our well-being and sustainable development depend. Water-related innovation originate in a wide range of countries, with different levels of ambition. They disseminate at...
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Who patents, how much is real invention and how relevant? : a snapshot of firms and their inventions based on the 2016 SIPO China Patent Survey
Molnár, Margit; Xu, Hui - 2019
explained by quality and relevance issues. Although the number of patents has been soaring, few are genuine inventions …. Relatively low utilisation rates of patents point to a low degree of relevance. This paper uses a representative survey of … ownership. It also overviews government subsidies across firms. Transport equipment makers hold most patents per firm, followed …
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R&D, patenting and growth : the role of public policy
Westmore, Ben - 2013
– proxied by R&D expenditure and the number of new patents – across 19 OECD countries. The relationship between innovation …
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