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Promoting sustainable seas and ocean with innovation

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The world’s seas and ocean are under increasing pressure, both from a growing range and intensity of economic activities, as well as from climate change. The OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) has launched an original programme of work on the Ocean Economy and Innovation with the objective to provide decision-makers with an improved toolbox to foster innovation for harnessing the ocean economy’s potential in a responsible and sustainable way. Read more.

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The OECD project on The Ocean Economy and Innovation builds on the findings from a major OECD / STI project on The Future of the Ocean Economy: Exploring the prospects for emerging ocean industries to 2030. This activity contributes to broader priorities of the OECD Committee on Science and Technology Policy (CSTP) (e.g. digitalisation, emerging technologies for addressing grand challenges) and is managed by the IPSO Unit (Innovation Policies for Space and Oceans). A follow-up programme of work is ongoing for 2019-2020.

Background: The ocean economy’s long-term potential in terms of growth and job creation cannot be fully realised unless more effective steps are taken to improve integrated ocean management -- including ecosystem preservation -- at local, regional, national and international level. That in turn will require significant progress in innovation and new thinking in many areas – in science, technology, R&D, manufacturing, infrastructural design, consultation and decision-making processes, institutional co-operation, and last but not least, in the policy mix that governments implement to support and encourage innovative capacity in the ocean economy more broadly.

Objective of the programme of work: Provide new evidence-based information to decision-makers as to improve policies for sustainable ocean economic activities. These orginal activities contribute to respond to such questions: How much the ocean represents for countries today? How to identify sources of growth and make economic sectors ever more sustainable? How to value and support science and innovation in view of the major challenges to come?

Activities: This will be undertaken through a series of expert workshops, research on new OECD indicators, and innovation policy discussions with ocean-related communities around the world (ministries, agencies, academia, foundations, NGOs and the private sector). The activities are organised around four major themes:

Exploring the role of scientific advances and enabling technologies in driving innovation in the ocean economy;
Investigating emerging patterns and platforms of collaboration in innovation among different marine and maritime actors in ocean R&D around the world;
Extending the frontiers of the use of economic valuation, analysis and tools further into areas of ocean-related activities; and
Analysing the role of the public sector and the impacts of policy mix in boosting innovation in the ocean economy.

Selected Meetings (in addition to other events organised by Partner organisations):

28 June 2021 - Workshop on Access to Research Data from Public Funding: the Case of Ocean/Marine Data (Zoom)
2 December 2020 - Meeting of the Ocean Economy Project Steering Board (Zoom)
19-20 November 2020, Virtual Workshop on Ocean Innovation Networks in North America and Beyond, St. John, Newfoundland, Canada - rescheduled from May 2020.
1 October 2020 - Virtual Meeting of Steering Board of the OECD STI Ocean Economy Group
30 September 2020 - Virtual workshop on Ocean Economy and Innovation - Linking economic potential and marine ecosystem health for sustainable development through marine spatial planning, hosted by the Stazione Zoologica "Anton Dohrn", and co-organised with UNESCO-IOC / MSPGlobal Initiative, the Marine Sciences Research Institute (ISMAR) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and ENI.
29-30 April 2020, Seminar on Satellite Accounts in the Ocean Economy, due to Covid-19 this meeting has been replaced by video interviews scheduled with the Steering Board members.
20-21 November 2019, Workshop on Digital Technologies in the Ocean Economy in Brussels, Belgium (preceded by Steering Board meeting on 19 November)
10-11 May 2019: Workshop on Innovation Networks in the Ocean Economy, hosted by Rev'Ocean in Oslo, Norway
14 February 2019: Conference - Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean: Observatories and Knowledge Networks, hosted by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) in Lisbon, Portugal. Launch of the new OECD publication "Rethinking Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean Economy"
16 November 2018: Meeting of the Steering Board of the Innovation and Ocean Economy Project, OECD Conference Centre, Paris
14 May 2018: OECD Workshop on valuation of ocean observations, OECD Conference Centre, Paris
20-24 November 2017: OECD Ocean Economy Week, with several events held in the OECD Conference Centre:
20 November: Workshop on Green Ships, OECD Council Working Party on Shipbuilding (WP6)
21-22 November 2017: Greening the Ocean Economy, Green Growth and Sustainable Development Forum
22-23 November 2017: New Approaches to Evaluating The Ocean Economy - 3rd International Symposium on the Oceans in National Income Accounts
10-11 October 2017: OECD Workshop co-organised and hosted by the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples - Innovation for a sustainable ocean economy: Developing the economic potential of our seas and oceans while preserving and improving ecosystem health.