Innovation and globalisation: OECD through its looking glass

Innovation and globalisation: OECD through its looking glass

This article from the current OECD Observer provides a brief overview of the trends of its economic analysis, especially its focus on innovation systems, over the five decades of its existence.

It seeks to draw lessons from that experience that may be useful in the current economic crisis.

The OECD has rightly started a debate on the creative society. The educational sector should now take the lead, because education has always been the institution for preparing the future, as well as transmitting to young people the heritage of the past.