Outline

The OECD Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Outlook is a flagship publication produced every two years that reviews key trends in STI policy. It draws on a mix of information on countries' STI policies, the latest statistical data, and the latest academic work in the field. The presentation will be in three parts. The first part will provide an overview of the 2018 edition of the STI Outlook, highlighting its main messages and describing the preparation process. A key pillar of the STI Outlook is data gathered from countries on latest developments on their STI policies. In this regard, the second part of the presentation will describe a new knowledge management system - the STIP Compass - developed by the OECD and European Commission to collect, store and visualize information on countries' STI policies and to link it semantically to other resources, including statistical data. As an open platform, STIP Compass supports not only OECD policy analysis but also countries' own information and analysis needs. The OECD is, of course, not alone in developing knowledge management platforms in support of STI policy analysis. The third part of the presentation will report on an OECD project to map digital science and innovation policy (DSIP) initiatives in more than 30 countries, including Japan's SciREX project. These initiatives promise to transform the evidence base for STI policy analysis, but also face several challenges, which will be discussed in the presentation.

Related links

OECD STI Outlook 2018: http://oe.cd/stio

Japanese summary of STI Outlook 2018: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/579cec22-ja.pdf?expires=1545152988&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=21A288212819BF4D097E6149B25EB4AE

STIP Compass portal: http://stip.oecd.org

DSIP project page: http://oe.cd/dsip