Science and technology
The Science, Technology and Innovation Outlook 2021 and its webpages explore how science and innovation policymaking can tackle the major global challenges facing people and the planet.
The new STI.Scoreboard platform allows you to retrieve, visualise and compare over 1000 statistical indicators of science, technology and innovation systems across OECD countries and other economies.
A world of open science and big data holds enormous promise but also presents new challenges for policy makers, scientific institutions and individual researchers. Find out more in our series of free reports.
As artificial intelligence gains ground, how can we ensure that it benefits society as a whole?
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- New OECD handbook on measuring the space economy
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Featured indicators
The OECD STI.Scorebord platform contains over 60 indicators on women and gender across different dimensions of science, technology and innovation.
In 2020, real growth in R&D in the OECD area was primarily driven by growth in the United States at 5%. China reported 9% growth while R&D spending in the EU fell in 2020. Meanwhile R&D expenditures declined in Germany (-5.3%) and Japan (-2.7%), according to the OECD Main Science and Technology Indicators.