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ST&I Global Forum Action Plan : CP-building partnerships for sustainable development

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Date: 07/06/2011

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ST&I Global Forum Action Plan : CP-building partnerships for sustainable development

By the World Bank’s STI Global Expert Team (STI GET).

The World Bank, in collaboration with a number of partners, convened a 'Global Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation (ST&I) Capacity Building Partnerships for Sustainable Development' in Washington, D.C. in December 2009. The objectives of the Forum were to (i) explore how well designed partnerships could promote inclusive globalization by helping developing countries build the ST&I capacity they need to address their social and economic objectives; and (ii) develop an Action Plan outlining how the World Bank, in collaboration with other stakeholders and development partners, could design, finance, and implement the new game-changing partnership ideas emerging from the Forum.

The Action Plan explains how the Bank and its development partners can help developing countries build the ST&I capacity they need to: 1) Foster ‘inclusive innovations’ focused on the needs of the three or four billion people at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP); 2) Convert ST&I capacity into business opportunities and move ideas from the lab to the market via the establishment of Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship Centers; 3) Train the next generation of knowledge workers and teachers for the global and local knowledge economy

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