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Promoting a Culture of Innovation in the South:
UNESCO’s Strategy and Key Actions
Dr Yoslan Nur
Programme Specialist
UNESCO
Presented at
18th Meeting of COMSATS Coodrinating Council
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 13 May 2015
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1. Introduction
2. Innovation issues and opportunities in developing countries
3. UNESCO’s approach and action in promoting a culture of
innovation
4. Potential cooperation with COMSATS
Overview
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1. Introduction
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UNESCO’s strategy and actions in promoting a
culture of innovation is part of the UNESCO’s
integrated policy approach in STI for sustainable
development.
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• First, strengthening national capacities in STI policy formulation,
evaluation and implementation.
• Second, promoting a culture of innovation by facilitating
appropriate innovation ecosystems for firm-based high
technology innovation and grassroots innovation.
• Third, enhancing of human and institutional capacities in science
and engineering.
• Forth, improving STI system monitoring and foresight – to
support evidence-based policy making process.
UNESCO Integrated policy approach in STI for sustainable
development was established on 4 following pillars:
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2. Innovation issues and opportunities
in developing countries
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• Almost inexistent innovation policy
• Inexistence or a very limited R&D facilities
• Heterogeneous economy with a large number of micro-
enterprises operating in the informal sector
• Poor system of governance
• Low education levels
• Lack of financial support system for innovation
Innovation issues
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• Increased awareness on the importance of innovation
• Different types and degrees of innovation may take place
across different stage of development, e.g. Doing, Utilizing
and Interacting (DUI) approach.
• Several developing countries have experienced to absorb
and to adapt technological knowledge to accelerate their
economic growth, e.g. Republic of Korea, Chile,
Singapore etc.
• Great potential of grass-root innovation that can be used
to meet the need the poor people.
Innovation opportunities
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3. UNESCO’s approach and actions in
promoting a culture of innovation
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UNESCO’s vision on the Innovation
• Innovation is a critical factor for enhancing economic
growth and competitiveness.
• Innovation is crucial for social cohesion, equality and
poverty alleviation.
• UNESCO supports both firm-based and grassroots
innovation.
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• Building an innovation ecosystem in developing countries is
complex, it involves the formal sector -- enterprises, universities,
research institutes, the government and the financial system –
along with non-governmental organisations and the informal
sector, including grassroots inventors, local and indigenous
knowledge.
• UNESCO provided policy advice and technical assistance in the
development of innovation ecosystem in its member States.
a. Facilitating the development of innovation ecosystem
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• Science park and technology business incubator providean appropriate innovation ecosystem to nurture and tohost knowledge based SMEs.
• The ultimate goal is to develop national capacity increating, nurturing and managing knowledge-basedSMEs
b. Encouraging the creation of knowledge-base SMEs by
supporting science park & technology business incubator
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University/
Research
Center
TBI
Knowledge
based
SMEs
R&D
units
Industry
(SME)
Science Park and Technology Business Incubator
Mechanism - creation knowledge-based SMEs
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Capacity building activities
• International training workshops and conferences
• Regional training workshops
• National training workshops
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Policy advice and technical assistance
• preparation of feasibility
studies
• elaboration business plan and
master plan of SP and TBI
• technical assistance on
networking, funding and
promotion foreign investment.
• Review existing science park
or other hi-tech clusters.
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Project 1. Arab States : Mubarak (Alexandria), Egypt
Mubarak City for Science and Technology
Project 2.
Africa : Nairobi, KenyaScience and Technology Park of Nairobi University
Project 3.
Asia-Pacific : Jakarta, IndonesiaIndonesia Science and technology Park
Pilot Projects
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Regional Center for Science Parks and
Tech Technology Business Incubator in
Isfahan, Islamic Republic of Iran
Establish Category 2 Center under
the auspices of UNESCO
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Global Innovation Forum
International platform to gather and to
share innovative ideas, knowledge and
experience and explore the possible
cooperation among the innovation
stakeholders
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• Innovation can be a critical tool to deal with poverty and promote social inclusion
• Grassroots innovation is primary a bottom‐up approach of pro‐poor innovation
• UNESCO supports grassroots innovation by empowering people through popularization of science, technopreneurship development, engineering, and local and indigenous knowledge programmes.
c. Promoting inclusive innovation for sustainable
development
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4. Potential cooperations:
COMSATS - UNESCO
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• Supporting commercialization of research results of the
center of excellences.
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Thank You