Jean Guinet

Jean Guinet - Head of Country Studies and Outlook Division (CSO), Directorate for Science Technology and Industry (DSTI), OECD. He is in charge of Country Reviews of Innovation Policies, the STI Outlook bi‐annual publication, and two newly launched activities, the Handbook of Innovation Policy, and a programme on Innovation and Development.

He was Head of Country Review Unit (DSTI, OECD) in charge of developing the programme of OECD Country Reviews of Innovation Policy and other country‐specific work on science, technology and innovation policy. As a senior management staff in DSTI, was deeply involved in all horizontal projects, notably the OECD Innovation Strategy and the DSTI contribution to the OECD wide work on the Response to the Financial Crisis.

In 1994‐2006 Jean Guinet was Principal Administrator of Science and Technology Policy Division, DSTI, OECD. He was in charge of major programmes such as the first round of Country Reviews of Innovation Policy, Globalisation of R&D, Evaluation of Publicly Funded Research, Public‐Private Partnerships for Innovation, and key contributor to important OECD‐wide projects (e.g. the Job Study, the Growth Study, the SME‐related Bologna process, including the 2004 Istanbul SME Ministerial). Played a leading in establishing the OECD Working Group on Technology and Innovation Policy (TIP), including by creating and leading during six years the flagship programme on National Innovation Systems.

Jean Guinet is an Expert for the European Commission; Consultant for the World Bank; Adviser to many OECD countries’ governments and public organisations on innovation policy issues; Member of the Steering Group of the French Technology Foresight Exercise and of the Expert Group assembled by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research to prepare the French Presidential Innovation Strategy.