Science Engineering And Technology Statistics 1997

On cover: SET statistics 1999: a handbook of science, engineering & technology indicators

OECD's journal on science, technology and industry issues. This issue includes articles on science and technology indicators.

Innovation is important for all countries seeking to maintain or improve their competitive advantage in the global economy. This text addresses major policy debates in science, technology and innovation focusing mainly on Europe, but also including comparisons with other countries around the world.

This toolkit provides a survey of the differential gender patterns of participation by men and women in science and technology. It assesses information provided by current sex-disaggregated quantitative data, along with discussing the reasons for differential rates of participation between women and men. The volume also looks at international methods for measuring science and technology activities, personnel and qualifications, and occupations, as well as how these can be properly disaggregated by sex, age and other variables. A key question addressed includes how to define economic and employment activities that can constitute or incorporate scientific and technological activities.--Publisher's description.

Science and technology improves human health but the pressure for faster and larger improvements is building with the continued ageing of the population. A fundamental starting point is the measurement of R&D in health care. This book addresses measurement practices across ten countries.

The two-volume Handbook of Environmental Health, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive but concise discussion of important environmental health areas, including energy, ecology and people, environmental epidemiology, risk assessment and risk management, environmental law, air quality management, food protection, insect control, rodent control, pe