Our little committee is just bringing them before the council today and tomorrow for the first time, but we have a number of fields broadly; for example, the climate of innovation, with indicators reflecting that; international S and T collaboration, with indicators reflecting that; universities and how we do as both R and D and innovation leaders; the private sector on R and D; then, looking at benchmarks, where data are available to allow us to compare with peer countries in the world on our progress over time, levels of investment in R and D, tax and regulatory environment, and the like. But these are for discussion.
On May 8th, 2008. See this statement in context.