As part of its STI Working Paper series, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (STI) has just published "An overview of biotechnology statistics in selected countries" by A. Devlin. The 74-page report provides an update of the current state of the biotechnology industry based on primarily official statistical sources. It includes data on publicly funded biotechnology R&D, the numbers of biotechnology firms (and the biotechnologies in which they are involved), biotechnology patents, biotechnology venture capital, genetically modified crops and, finally, biotechnology profiles of 26 OECD member and selected observer countries, plus the European Union. See http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2003doc.nsf/linkto/dsti-doc(2003)13 or contact [email protected] for more information.

01/12/2003