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- Can you trust a scientist?
- Public confidence in science and technology is crucial in a sophisticated society. But do we know what Integrity in science means, and if so, can we measure it?
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- Who regulates the regulators?
- The need for regulation is a given, but how do you prevent it from getting out of control, both in volume and in the costs of implementation and compliance? To help in considering this question, the OECD has surveyed policies that its member countries use to improve the quality of their regulations.
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- Taking the pulse of a society
- Our lives and societies are becoming more complex and bewildering. How can we measure and track the important factors that affect us all? Composite indicators are a way of distilling reality into a manageable form.
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- Breeding business success
- An economically healthy Europe requires more new technology-based firms (NTBFs). Their founders say they need specialist training, with a practical slant.
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- Growing prosperity
- The UK is spending less on research and development. Because of the close relationship between R&D and economic growth, the British government has drawn up a strategy for promoting science, technology and engineering so that new ideas will be able to trickle through into future business successes.
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- It's not what you know, it's knowing how to use it
- At the March 2000 'dotcom summit' in Lisbon, EU leaders set themselves the ambitious target of making the Union the world's most dynamic knowledge- based economy by 2010. A new book by France's national publishing office looks at the efforts France has made to meet that goal.
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April 2003