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The Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2001 brings together the latest internationally comparable data on trends in the knowledge-based economy, by compiling over 160 indicators that capture the changing relationship between science, innovation and the economy. It uses an improved and updated classification of technology and knowledge-intensive industries that takes into account the important role of services, skills and information and communication technologies. New indicators address emerging policy issues: international mobility of human capital, relative innovative performance as measured by patent families, skills in the information economy, diffusion of the Internet and electronic commerce. For the first time, measures of the resources devoted to innovation in emerging areas such as biotechnology, environment, health and information and communication technologies are presented.
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