The country profiles of the OECD STI Outlook present the main features, strengths and weaknesses of national STI systems and major recent changes in national STI policy along a standardised and cross-country comparable structure.
This annex describes the conceptual background used to design these profiles, as well as indicators, sources and benchmarking methodology.
OECDiLibrary subscribers have access to pdf-Download, non-subscribers to a Read-only version (2016).
Readers' guides and methodological annexes of country profiles from previous editions of the OECD STI Outlook:
2014:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/sti_outlook-2014-34-en
http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/sti_outlook-2014-82-en
2012: www.oecd.org/sti/sti-outlook-2012-country-profiles-readers-guide.pdf
