The Industrial Policy for the Sustainable Development Goals publication was prepared under the aegis of the OECD Committee on Industry, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE).
The principal authors were Guy Lalanne (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6), Ali Alsamawi (Chapters 3 and 4) and Kohei Kitazawa (Chapters 1, 2 and 5) of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation’s Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Division (PIE).
The authors thank Francesco Cabras for his important contributions to this work. The authors are grateful to colleagues from the Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), for their advice and suggestions, to Sean Cruse for sharing the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) data and to Bhavita Ragoo, Isabelle Desnoyers-James and Alana Baker for their excellent assistance to finalise the drafting of this report. We thank Chiara Criscuolo, Head of Division at PIE, and colleagues from the Permanent Delegation of Japan to the OECD for their support throughout this project and Márcio Carvalho, Annette Hardcastle and Charles-Édouard Van De Put for excellent editorial assistance. Angela Gosmann assisted greatly in the publication stage.
The authors would like to thank the CIIE delegates from Canada, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Korea and New Zealand for their help with the benchmarking exercise in Chapter 5.