Canadians Look at Policy Implications of the New Economy

The Spring 2002 edition of the Isuma, the quarterly Canadian Journal of Policy Research, is dedicated to issues surrounding the New Economy. Many of the 16 papers in the free, online issue will be of interest to readers of SSTI's Weekly Digest, including:

• What’s New About the “New Economy”? by Bradford DeLong
• The New Economy: Myth or Reality? (Translation), by Bernard Bobe
• American Economic Growth in the Information Age, by Dale W. Jorgenson
• Information and Communication Technology and Economic Growth in France, by Jacques Mairesse, Gilbert Cette and Yusuf Kocoglu
• Canadian Productivity: When Do We Catch Up? (Translation), by Pierre Fortin
• The Importance of Information Technology: A Canada-U.S. Comparison, by John R. Baldwin, Tarek M. Harchaoui and Faouzi Tarkhani
• Innovation in the New Economy by Dirk Pilat
• Clusters and Economic Policy by Clifford Bekar and Richard G. Lipsey
• Intellectual Property and Innovation in the Knowledge-Based Economy, by Dominique Foray
• Leveraging the Skills of Knowledge Workers, by Graham S. Lowe
• Internet Jurisdiction: The Shifting Adjudicatory Approach, by Michael Geist
• A NAFTA Approach to Internet Governance, by Catherine L. Mann and Diana Orejas
• Electronic Commerce and International Taxation, by Jinyan Li and Jonathan See
• Taxes And Fiscal Instruments in the New Economy, by Jack M. Mintz
• The Internet and the “Borderless” World, by Ronald J. Deibert
• The Productivity Paradox: A Case of the Emperor’s New Clothes, by Richard G. Lipsey

HTML and PDF versions of the papers, each ranging between 5-9 pages and an Editor's Introduction are available at: http://isuma.net/v03n01/index_e.shtml

Additional Canadian TBED Resources Worth A Click

In February, SSTI encouraged readers to consider a free subscription to Ontario's Regional Economic Development and Innovation (OREDI) Newsletter, which provides great international coverage of the field of technology-based economic development.

SSTI learned about Isuma through yet another excellent Canadian online publication covering innovation policy and technology-based economic development, the weekly e-newsletter of Réseau Innovation Network (RIN) entitled Smart Practices Innovation Network.

A third great Canadian information resource, the Quebec equivalent to OREDI, was brought to our attention by SSTI Weekly Digest subscriber George Schoenhofer. E-Veille, a monthly e-newsletter that surveys scientific journals related to the evaluation of science, technology and research, is produced by the Observatoire des sciences et des technologies (OST). OST is a research infrastructure dedicated to the development of statistical tools for measuring the evolution of science and technology. The latest issue provides links to several European indicator reports and statistics.