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Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Oecd Science Technology And Industry Scoreboard 2007 Innovation And Performance In The Global Economy by Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development
The STI Scoreboard 2007 provides a comprehensive picture of performance in the areas of science, technology, globalization and industry. This eighth edition brings together the latest internationally comparable data, including all OECD countries as well as key nonmember countries (notably Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), to explore the growing interaction between innovation and economic growth and social wellbeing. Subjects include R&D and investment in knowledge Innovation policy, strategies, and performance Human resources in S&T and ICT, including the international mobility of researchers and scientists New patterns in global trade competitiveness and productivity Science and industry linkages (e.g. in patents and cooperation in innovation with universities) Advances in emerging technological fields (biotechnology and nanotechnology) Technologies of particular interest (environmental technologies) and the international outsourcing of production Growth of the information economy Internationalization of research Changing role of multinational enterprises_x000D_ _x000D_
Part I: Contexts._x000D_
1. Client-Based Market Research._x000D_
2. Academic Research in Marketing._x000D_
Part II: Accessing and constructing good quality data._x000D_
3. Accessing Secondary Data._x000D_
4. Constructing Qualitative Data._x000D_
5. Constructing Quantitative Data: Structuring Data and Measuring Variables._x000D_
6. Constructing Quantitative Data: Developing the Instruments of Data Capture._x000D_
7. Constructing Quantitative Data: Selecting Methods._x000D_
8. Constructing Quantitative Data: Selecting Cases._x000D_
9. Mixed Research Designs._x000D_
Part III: Data Analysis._x000D_
10. Analyzing Qualitative Data._x000D_
11. Analyzing Quantitative Data: Essential Descriptive Summaries of Single Variables._x000D_
12. Analyzing Relationships Between Two Variables._x000D_
13. Making Statistical Inferences._x000D_
14. Multivariate Analysis._x000D_
15. Alternative Methods of Data Analysis._x000D_
Part IV: Applications._x000D_
16. Commercial Proprietary Techniques._x000D_
17. Cross-National Research._x000D_
18. Communicating the Results._x000D_