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Launch of OECD STI Scoreboard 2009

Presentation
Andrew Wyckoff
Director, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Directorate

Panelists
Stephen A. Merril
Executive Director, Science, Technology, and Economic Policy
The National Academies

Kei Koizumi
Assistant Director for Federal Research and Development
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Lynda Carlson
Director, Division of Science Resources Statistics
National Science Foundation

Monday, December 7, 2009
Rayburn House Office Buildling, Room 2325
Washington DC, 20515
12:30-1:30 PM Presentation, 12:00 PM Lunch & Registration

While the series is free of charge, we ask that you please
register by Monday morning, December 7, for security reasons.

Event Description:

How is the economic crisis affecting innovation? How can innovation help to solve environmental and social threats? How are countries tackling these challenges? The OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2009 provides the statistical information that provides insight into these questions.

Covering 5 broad areas and compiling more than 200 indicators, the 2009 edition of the OECD’s STI Scoreboard will be presented by Andrew Wyckoff, Director of OECD’s Science, Technology and Industry Directorate.  His presentation will look at the US from three different dimensions:

1) the impact of the crisis on R&D expenditures and venture capital investments;

2) the increasing internationalization of innovation activities, research networks and technology flows; and

3) the development of technologies that can be used to address pressing issues such as climate change and health care.

Biographies:

Andrew W. Wyckoff is the Director of the OECD’s Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (STI). Prior to this position he was Head of the Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP) division at the OECD which supports the organisation’s work on information society as well as consumer policy issues. Before heading ICCP, he was the head of STI’s Economic Analysis and Statistics Division which develops methodological guidelines, collects statistics and undertakes empirical analysis in support of science, technology and innovation policy analysis. His experience prior to the OECD includes being a program manager of the Information, Telecommunications and Commerce program of the US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), an economist at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and a programmer at The Brookings Institution. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont and a degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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