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Assessment of the Belgian S&T Statistical System and Priorities for Development Work: An OECD Perspective

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  • Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie

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The objective of this report is to make recommendations regarding the most important S&T statistical information required by the DSTI to enable it to include Belgian indicators more frequently in its official reports and publications. The suggested priority areas are defined with respect to OECD’s most important S&T statistics and indicators, recent progress in Belgian institutions and OECD future prospects in terms of new indicators. The main recommendations are: i) the methodological framework implemented to compute the ANBERD database provides strong foundations that would allow for the construction of other basic S&T statistics and analytical indicators; ii) Belgium should join the group of core countries for which a feasibility study on the mobility of human resources is to be launched; iii) the R&D survey sampling procedure could be improved by implementing it in the light of the CIS questionnaires and extended to comprehend complementary information related to new ... L’objectif de ce rapport est de proposer des recommandations concernant les principales statistiques de S&T requises par la DSTI pour lui permettre d’inclure les indicateurs belges plus fréquemment au sein de ses rapports officiels et publications. Les priorités sont définies par rapport aux indicateurs de S&T les plus couramment utilisés au sein de l’OCDE, aux avancées récentes des institutions belges et au développement futur de nouveaux indicateurs à l’OCDE. Les recommandations principales sont les suivantes : i) le cadre méthodologique utilisé pour la construction de la banque de données ANBERD pourrait être exploité pour la construction de statistiques de base de S&T et d’indicateurs analytiques ; ii) la Belgique devrait se joindre au groupe de pays pour lesquels une étude de faisabilité sur la mobilité des ressources humaines est réalisée ; iii) la procédure d’échantillonnage des enquêtes R&D pourrait être améliorée à la lumière des questionnaires CIS et élargie de manière à ...

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  • Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, 1998. "Assessment of the Belgian S&T Statistical System and Priorities for Development Work: An OECD Perspective," OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers 1998/5, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:stiaaa:1998/5-en
    DOI: 10.1787/213888760181
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    1. Henri Capron & Michele Cincera & Annemie Hollant & Wim Meeusen, 1999. "Harmonisation of Belgian annual business expenditures on research and development (ANBERD) data - 1973-1996," ULB Institutional Repository 2013/935, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

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