Innovation and Technology Committee

The OECD fosters technology-driven growth by advancing science, technology, and innovation policies that support economic competitiveness, resilience, and sustainable development. Its work addresses emerging fields such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, and open science, while promoting responsible innovation and international collaboration. The OECD’s evidence-based analysis guides policymakers in creating frameworks that enable transformative socio-economic change and facilitate partnerships between public and private sectors across disciplines and borders.  

• Encourage the adoption of inclusive and anticipatory regulatory frameworks fit for global challenges 

• Enable open, responsible innovation in science and emerging technologies 

• Maximise the effectiveness of private investments in research and innovation 

• Promote lifelong learning initiatives to train research professionals at all levels 

• Develop environments encouraging the rapid uptake and diffusion of emerging technologies  

Business at OECD’s Innovation and Technology Committee provides private sector expertise to the OECD’s science and technology policy work, particularly through engagement with the OECD’s Committee on Scientific and Technological Policy and related Working Parties. Business at OECD’s Innovation and Technology Committee addresses issues from synthetic biology to innovation ecosystems, offering business perspectives on research and innovation trends and emerging technologies. It meets ad hoc throughout the year and represents business interests in the OECD’s Committee on Scientific and Technological Policy meetings twice annually in a dialogue between industry and policymakers. 

• OECD’s Committee on Scientific and Technological Policy  

• OECD’s Working Party on Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Converging Technologies 

• OECD’s Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy 

• OECD’s Global Science Forum