OECD Science, Technology, and Industry Outlook

摘要

Despite the economic slowdown that spread across the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) area in 2001, investment in and exploitation of knowledge remain key drivers of innovation economic performance, and social well-being. Over the past decade, investments in knowledge―as measured by expenditures on research and development (R&D), higher education, and software―grew more rapidly than did gross fixed capital formation and played an important role in driving economic growth.