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Themes
The conference addresses two topics: what has been accomplished so far in statistics on science, technology and innovation, and what is the future prospect for indicators.

Lessons from the History

This part of the conference looks at history in order to identify what lessons have been or could be learned from past practices. It will study the origins of S&T statistics, their characteristics, the rationales for their development and the uses that have been made of them. Specific questions addressed are:

What explains the origins of statistics on science, technology and innovation?
Who were the forerunners, the pioneers and the followers?
What were the motives of early statisticians?
What type of statistics was developed?
What uses were made of the statistics developed?
What was the “politics” of measurement?
How to make a sociology of statistics?

New perspectives for STI indicators

This session looks at the future and examines the conditions required to produce new and better measurements. Topics discussed are:

The requirements and needs of users, both institutional and academic.
The misses and holes in current statistics.
The methodological challenges for producing renewed statistics.
The new and promising avenues.
Examples of recent innovative works.

Honour Committee
John Dryden, deputy director of the STI Directorate, OECD
Gabriele Gendotti, Minister of Education of Canton Ticino
Patrice Laget, Istitute for Prospective Technology Studies, Seville

Charles Kleiber, Swiss Secretary of State for Education and Research

Piero Martinoli, President of University of Lugano

Conference Chair

Benoît Godin, INRS Urbanisation, Culture et Société, Montréal.

Benedetto Lepori, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano

Scientific Committee

Rémi Barré, CNAM Paris

Andrea Bonaccorsi, Università di Pisa, Italie

Alessandra Colecchia, STI Directorate, OECD, Paris
Ghislaine Filliatreau, Observatoire des Sciences et Techniques, Paris

Philippe Larédo, LATTS, ENPC, Paris

Jean-Jacques Salomon, CNAM, Paris
Anthony van Raan, CWTS, Leiden