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Environmental policy and technological innovation in shipbuilding

Corbett, James; Johnstone, Nick; Strodel, Karin; … - 2016

This paper examines the relationship between environmental policy and “green” innovation in shipbuilding. The primary … motivating question of this work is whether there is evidence of: i) technology push from innovation that enables environmental … policy initiatives; and/or, ii) policy pull that induces innovation leading to “green” ships. This paper focuses on four …

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Reshoring : myth or reality?

De Backer, Koen; Menon, Carlo; Desnoyers-James, Isabelle; … - 2016

The news that companies in OECD economies are increasingly bringing manufacturing activities back home has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. Headline cases of a number of large multinational companies have given increased visibility to the phenomenon of reshoring in the economic...

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The dynamics of employment growth : new evidence from 18 countries

Criscuolo, Chiara; Gál, Peter; Menon, Carlo - 2014

Motivated by the ongoing interest of policy makers in the sources of job creation, this paper presents results from a new OECD project on the dynamics of employment (DynEmp) based on an innovative methodology using firm-level data (i.e. national business registers or similar sources). It...

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Effective operation of competitive research funding systems

OECD - 2018

This report analyses existing competitive research funding mechanisms and their effectiveness, taking into account a variety of contextual factors. It focuses on the efficiency of funding allocation mechanisms relative to their objectives. The main elements of this project have been an extensive...

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Local content requirements and their economic effect on shipbuilding : a quantitative assessment

Gourdon, Karin; Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins - 2019

This study quantifies the significant economic gains that are expected to be revealed through the abolition or relaxation of local content based policies. The work analyses two specific local content policies affecting directly or indirectly the shipbuilding industry in two countries: Brazil’s...

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Evaluation of industrial policy : methodological issues and policy lessons

Warwick, Ken; Nolan, Alistair - 2014

focus on risk capital); and public procurement for innovation. The report also examines three areas where packages of …

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Cross-country evidence on the contributions of research institutions to innovation

Paunov, Caroline; Borowiecki, Martin; El-Mallakh, Nevine - 2019

This paper presents preliminary evidence on the patenting activities of 21 200 research institutions - 20 091 higher education institutions (HEIs) and 1 109 public research institutes (PRIs) - for 36 OECD countries and China from 1992 to 2014. Our evidence, which builds on a database that...

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On the concentration of innovation in top cities in the digital age

Paunov, Caroline; Guellec, Dominique; El-Mallakh, Nevine; … - 2019

innovation in these cities. …

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Innovation policies in the digital age

Guellec, Dominique; Paunov, Caroline - 2018

This paper looks at how digitalisation is transforming innovation, and the consequent need for innovation policies to … change innovation dynamics. Data have become a core input for innovation. Other changes include more opportunities for … versioning; an acceleration in innovation, more experimentation and collaboration; servitisation; and higher risk associated with …

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Public research and innovative entrepreneurship : preliminary cross-country evidence from micro data

Breschi, Stefano; Lassébie, Julie; Lembcke, Alexander; … - 2019

This paper provides a first assessment of the degree to which public research contributes to innovative entrepreneurship, using data on start-ups and venture capital (VC). It looks at academic start-ups founded by recent undergraduates and doctorate students or researchers. It shows that...

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