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Oecd Reviews of Innovation Policy Oecd Reviews of Innovation Policy: Sweden 2012 Oecd Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

This OECD Review of Innovation Policy for Sweden offers a comprehensive assessment of its  innovation system, focusing on the role of government. It provides concrete recommendations on how to improve policies that affect innovation performance, including R&D policies, and identifies good practices from which other countries can learn.

Table of Content :

Abbreviations and acronyms
Overall assessment and recommendations
-Achievements and challenges: Continuing a highly successful path of socioeconomic development
-Main strengths and weaknesses of the Swedish innovation system
-Scope for improving and further developing innovation policy
-Strategic tasks
-Guiding principles
-Recommendations
Évaluation globale et recommandations
-Réalisations et défis : Poursuivre une trajectoire de développement socioéconomique historiquement remarquable
-Principaux points forts et points faibles du système dinnovation suédois
-Perspectives damélioration et de poursuite du développement de la politique de linnovation -Tâches stratégiques
-Principes directeurs
-Recommandations
Chapter 1. Economic performance and framework conditions for innovation
-1.1. Macroeconomic performance and productivity growth
-1.2. Globalisation and structural change
-1.3. Framework conditions for innovation and entrepreneurship
-1.4. The role of innovation in Swedens economic development: Past and future
-References
Chapter 2. Innovation performance
-2.1. Innovation inputs
-2.2. Innovation outputs
-References
Chapter 3. Innovation actors in Sweden
-3.1. The business sector
-3.2. Higher education institutes
-3.3. Public research institutes
-3.4. Non-governmental intermediary organisations
-3.5. Human resources for science, technology and innovation
-References
Chapter 4. Role of government
-4.1. The evolution of Swedens science, technology and innovation policy
-4.2. Main policy actors
-4.3. Public governance: Agenda-setting, co-ordination and evaluation
-4.4. Supporting business R&D and innovation
-4.5. Facilitating access to risk financing
-4.6. Nurturing skills for innovation
-4.7. Spurring demand for innovation
-4.8. Fostering excellence, relevance and critical mass in public-sector research
-4.9. Promoting balanced growth across regions
-4.10. Promoting innovation in the public sector and wider society
-4.11. Building and exploiting international knowledge linkages
-References