OECD Digital Economy Papers
The OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) undertakes a wide range of activities to better understand how information and communication technologies (ICTs) contribute to sustainable economic growth and social well-being. The OECD Digital Economy Papers series covers a broad range of ICT-related issues and makes selected studies available to a wider readership. They include policy reports, which are officially declassified by an OECD Committee, and occasional working papers, which are meant to share early knowledge.
- ISSN: 20716826 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/20716826
Policy Responses to the Economic Crisis
Investing in Innovation for Long-Term Growth
The OECD is developing a strategic response to the crisis focusing on two priority areas: finance,
competition and governance; and restoring long-term growth. As part of this strategic response, the
OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (DSTI) has analysed the likely impact of the
downturn on the drivers of long term economic growth and the innovation-related items in policy
responses of major countries. Special workshops and sessions on the economic crisis were held by
the Committee for Innovation, Industry and Entrepreneurship, the Committee for Scientific and
Technological Policy, and the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy. In
January 2009, the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry circulated a questionnaire
to member countries to collect information on specific innovation-related items of their stimulus
packages. By May 2009, 27 member countries, all five OECD accession countries (Chile, Estonia,
Israel, Russia and Slovenia) and South Africa had answered the questionnaire. In May 2009, the three
OECD Committees recommended to make public, under their responsibility, this updated version.
This report presents the results of this exercise: the first chapter reports the general analysis of
the impact of the crisis and the appropriate policy responses, and the second chapter reviews
current national responses.
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