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Science, technology and innovation in the time of COVID-19

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  • Caroline Paunov

    (OECD)

  • Sandra Planes-Satorra

    (OECD)

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Science, technology and innovation (STI) have played a key role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and the unprecedented socio-economic crisis it has triggered. This paper explores how the pandemic affected STI in 2020, including how STI was mobilised to provide vaccines, treatments and innovative (often digital) solutions to address “social distancing”. The paper also reviews the quick and agile STI policy responses implemented across countries to stimulate research and innovation activities to find solutions to the pandemic. Moreover, the paper covers STI policies that targeted universities, research centres, innovative businesses and entrepreneurs most affected by the crisis. It also raises key debates on the effectiveness of such policies. Follow-up work will leverage more and better data to improve this early assessment of the impacts of the crisis and STI policy responses.

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  • Caroline Paunov & Sandra Planes-Satorra, 2021. "Science, technology and innovation in the time of COVID-19," OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers 99, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:stiaac:99-en
    DOI: 10.1787/234a00e5-en
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    1. Roth, Florian & Warnke, Philine & Niessen, Pia & Edler, Jakob, 2021. "Systemische Resilienz: Einsichten aus der Innovationsforschung [Insights into systemic resilience from innovation research]," Perspectives – Policy Briefs 03 / 2021 (DE), Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI).
    2. Roth, Florian & Warnke, Philine & Niessen, Pia & Edler, Jakob, 2021. "Insights into systemic resilience from innovation research," Perspectives – Policy Briefs 03 / 2021, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI).
    3. Diekhof, Josefine & Krieger, Bastian & Licht, Georg & Rammer, Christian & Schmitt, Johannes & Stenke, Gero, 2021. "The impact of the Covid-19 crisis on innovation: First in-sights from the German business sector," ZEW Expert Briefs 21-06, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    4. Dominik Emanuel Froehlich, 2021. "Career Networks in Shock: An Agenda for in-COVID/Post-COVID Career-Related Social Capital," Merits, MDPI, vol. 1(1), pages 1-10, November.
    5. Trunschke, Markus & Peters, Bettina & Czarnitzki, Dirk & Rammer, Christian, 2023. "Pandemic effects: Do innovation activities of firms suffer from long-Covid?," ZEW Discussion Papers 23-014, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.

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    Keywords

    COVID-19; OECD countries; science; STI policy; technology and innovation (STI);
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    JEL classification:

    • O30 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - General
    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
    • D20 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - General
    • H12 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Crisis Management

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