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Nature 455, 462-463 (25 September 2008) | doi:10.1038/455462a; Published online 24 September 2008

Open Innovation Challenges

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A cat's cradle for policy

Fred Gault1 & Susanne Huttner2

  1. Fred Gault is a member of the Management Team of the OECD Innovation Strategy and a visiting fellow at the Canadian International Development Research Centre, PO Box 8500, Ottawa K1G 3H9, Canada.
    Email: fgault@idrc.ca
  2. Susanne Huttner co-ordinates work on the OECD Innovation Strategy and is director of the Science, Technology and Industry Directorate at the OECD, 2, rue André-Pascal, 75775 Paris, CEDEX 16, France.

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The OECD is developing a strategy for nations to measure and ultimately promote innovation. It requires knowledge of a complex system, say Fred Gault and Susanne Huttner.

As developing nations move rapidly towards industrialization, leaders of some of the strongest economies in the world have felt threatened by what they perceive as a potential regime shift. There are new economic players, such as Brazil, China and India; new ideas and attitudes towards intellectual property; and an increasingly skilled workforce no longer bound by geography.

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