OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2009 [online]

Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

"At a time when world economy is in the midst of the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression, the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2009 provides the statistical information necessary to define a response to these global challenges.
This edition of the Scoreboard illustrates and analyses a wide set of indicators of science, technology, globalisation and industrial performance in OECD and major non OECD countries (notably Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa). Indicators are organised around five issues: responding to the economic crisis, targeting new growth areas, competing in the world economy, connecting to global research, and investing in the knowledge economy."

Statistics for dummies [book]

Author: Deborah Rumsey

"For everyone who wants to sort through and evaluate the incredible amount of statistical information that comes to them on a daily basis ... This book arms you with the ability to decipher and make important decisions about statistical results ... [Contains] practical and intuitive explanations of statistical concepts, ideas, techniques, formulas, and calculations. Clear and concise step-by-step procedures that intuitively explain how to work through statistics problems." - from publisher.

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Logistic regression models [book]

Author: Joseph M. Hilbe

"Presents an overview of the full range of logistic models, including binary, proportional, ordered, and categorical response regression procedures. It illustrates how to apply the models to medical, health, environmental / ecological, physical, and social science data." - cover.

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Renewables Information, 2009 [online]

Authors: International Energy Agency (IEA) & Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Renewables Information is the International Energy Agency's comprehensive annual review of historical and current market trends for renewable energy in OECD countries. This volume brings together essential statistics on renewable and waste energy sources.

Oil Information 2009 [online]
International Energy Agency (IEA)

"The International Energy Agency's comprehensive annual reference book on current developments in oil supply and demand. The first part of this 2009 edition contains key data on world production, trade, prices and consumption of major oil product groups, with time series back to the early 1970s. The second part gives a more detailed and comprehensive picture of oil supply, demand, trade, production and consumption by end-user for each OECD country individually and for the OECD regions. Trade data are reported extensively by origin and destination."

OECD biotechnology statistics 2009 [online]
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
"Contains government survey data for 22 OECD countries and additional data for four nonmember countries. The survey data provide results on the number of biotechnology firms, business expenditures on R&D, biotechnology employment, and sales of biotechnology goods and services." - foreword.

Energy Statistics of OECD Countries, 2009 [online]

Authors: International Energy Agency (IEA) & Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

This volume contains data on energy supply and consumption in original units for coal, oil, gas, electricity, heat, renewables and waste. Complete data are available for 2006 and 2007 and supply estimates are available for the most recent year (i.e. 2008). Historical tables summarise data on production, trade and final consumption. The book also includes definitions of products and flows and explanatory notes on the individual country data.

Lies, damned lies, and science : how to sort through the noise around global warming, the latest health claims, and other scientific controversies [book]

Author: Sherry Seethaler

"Reveals how science and health research really work...how to put scientific claims in context and understand the real tradeoffs involved...tell quality research from junk science...discover when someone's deliberately trying to fool you...and find more information you can trust! " - cover.

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The Life and Death of Statically Detected Vulnerabilities: An Empirical Study (journal article)
By Massimiliano De Penta, Luigi Cerulo and Lerina Aversano
from Information & Software Technology Vol. 51 Iss 10 Oct 2009, pp. 1469-1484.
"Vulnerable statements constitute a major problem for developers and maintainers of networking systems. Their presence can ease the success of security attacks, aimed at gaining unauthorized access to data and functionality, or at causing system crashes and data loss. Examples of attacks caused by source code vulnerabilities are buffer overflows, command injections, and cross-site scripting. This paper reports on an empirical study, conducted across three networking systems, aimed at observing the evolution and decay of vulnerabilities detected by three freely available static analysis tools. In particular, the study compares the decay of different kinds of vulnerabilities, characterizes the decay likelihood through probability density functions, and reports a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the reasons for vulnerability removals. The study is performed by using a framework that traces the evolution of source code fragments across subsequent commits."
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Research and Development Expenditure in Industry [online]

Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

"This 2009 edition of Research and Development Expenditure in Industry provides statistical data on R&D expenditure broken down by industrial and service sectors. Data are presented in national currency values. Coverage is provided for 25 OECD countries and three non-member economies."

Data Surveys - Australian Innovation Data (journal article)
by Paul H. Jensen and Elizabeth Webster
from The Australian Economic Review, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 323–9
The absence of an ideal innovation metric does not mean that economists and management scholars should avoid conducting innovation related research. Second-best data sources are increasingly being brought to light. These include: R&D data; new product launches; counts of intellectual property (IP), such as patents and trade marks; and surveys of companies’ innovative activities. However, to effectively use these data, researchers should be cognisant of their relative strengths and weaknesses.