STI Review

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Frequency :
Service
ISSN :
1609-7637 (online)
ISSN :
1010-5247 (print)
DOI :
10.1787/16097637
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Prepared by the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (STI), the STI Review, published twice yearly, presents studies of interest to science, technology and industry policy makers and analysts, with particular emphasis on cross-country comparisons, quantitative descriptions of new trends and identification of recent and future policy problems. Because of the nature of OECD work, the STI Review explores structural and institutional change at global level as well as at regional, national and sub-national levels. Issues often focus on particular themes, such as surveys on firm-level innovation behaviour and technology-related employment problems.

 
 
 

Volume 1995, Issue 1 You or your institution have access to this content

Publication Date :
18 Oct 1995
DOI :
10.1787/sti_rev-v1995-1-en

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Special Issue on Innovation and Standards.  New forms of innovation prompt a re-examination of how the strengths and weaknesses of national innovation systems are diagnosed. This is done in order to guide policy on supporting innovation and shaping the general conditions in which scientific and technical knowledge is put to economic use today. These general, "framework conditions", range from today's emerging global information infrastructures to the full gamut of regulatory and legal constraints operating at national and international levels. These include technical aspects related to standardisation, whose growing importance illustrates the emergence of new policy issues.

Table of Contents

-Introduction
-Accessing and Expanding the Science and Technology Knowledge Base
-Interactions in Knowledge Systems: Foundations, Policy Implications and Empirical Methods
-Characteristics of Innovation Policies, Namely for SMEs
-An Innovation Survey in Services: The Experience with the CIS Questionnaire in the Netherlands
-The Public Sector and Information Technology Standards
-The Role of Users in Information Technology Standardisation
-The Informatisation of Government: From Choice of Technology to Economic Opportunity