Importance of Innovation for Development

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Importance of Innovation for Development Green
Growth

• DSTI
• Yuko Harayama

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DSTI
Green Growth Strategy
Policy Coherence for Development
New Sources of Growth
Horizontal Works
Health Innovation
Knowledge Networks Markets
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Innovation Reviews
Country-specific Reviews
Regional Reviews / Platforms
Follow-up

• Completed Luxembourg, Switzerland, New Zealand,
  South Africa, Chile, Norway, China, Greece,
  Hungary, Korea, Mexico

• Bilateral, completed Luxembourg, Switzerland,
  Chile
• Bilateral, planned New Zealand
• Collective, planned Meeting in Beijing in 2011

• Ongoing Russia, Slovenia, Peru
• Under launch or planned (for 2011) Turkey,
  Brazil, Vietnam
• Expression of interest / Under discussion (for
  2011/12) Finland, Sweden, Serbia, Indonesia,
  etc.

• Ongoing South East Asia (SEA)
• Under launch Latin America (LA) Initiative in
  co-op with DEV (launch early 2011 in Mexico)
• Planned MENA (potential partner Turkey, initial
  contact with Saudi Arabia), Africa (potential
  partner South Africa scoping mission in
  Tanzania)

Policy responses need to be effective in
achieving national goals

• Process and methodology in constant development
  (learning by doing), but stabilised and proven
  core, adaptive in response to demand in terms of
  scope, focus, intermediary deliveries, etc. An
  Impact Survey provided encouraging results and
  guidance for further improvement.
• Cooperation within OECD (ECO, GOV, DEV, EDU)
  outside ASEAN, EU (SEA project), World Bank
  (joint project on Vietnam), IDB (financing of
  Review of Peru), UNESCO (Tanzania), UN-CEPAL
  (LA), UNCTAD (MENA, Thailand).
• VCs from non-reviewed countries Japan (China,
  SEA), Germany (China, SEA), France (China),
  Sweden (China), Norway (China), Finland (China,
  Vietnam), Korea (China, SEA, LA), US (China),
  Australia (China), Mexico (LA)

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Our Challenges

• Taking advantage of our experiences
• Innovation reviews
• STI Outlook
• Handbook
• Proof of concept, Prototyping, Development and
  customization ? Web-based platform
• Repository of country-specific information
• Synthesizing our works
• And using our Network
• Strong demand from individual countries,
  especially but not only emerging economies, and
  from International Organisations. (e.g. Swedish
  SIDA)
• To develop our strategy on Innovation and
  Development