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How to launch Ethiopia's tech and innovation lift-off
22 Nov 2019
UNCTAD review shows how improved use of science, technology and innovation policies can build innovation capacity, upgrade technologies and accelerate Ethiopia's development process.
New policy review framework balances development objectives
17 May 2019
UNCTAD updates its methodology for assessing science, technology and innovation policies to better balance economic, social and environmental factors.
Inequalities and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
1 May 2019
Written bySusan E. Cozzens, Georgia Institute of Technology
Genetics and AI experts to speak at science, tech and innovation meeting
4 Mar 2019
The impact of rapid technological change on sustainable development, and the role of citizen science, form focus of May session.
Inclusive science policymaking needed for rapid tech change
13 Feb 2019
Inter-sessional Panel of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development meets in Vienna to discuss ssacling up inclusion.
What if our future were designed equally by women?
11 Feb 2019
Writen by Shamika N. Sirimanne, Director of the Division on Technology and Logistics (UNCTAD)
Science, technology and innovation a powerful engine for sustainable development in the Islamic Republic of Iran
15 May 2017
A new report from UNCTAD finds that the Islamic Republic of Iran has greatly improved its science, technology and innovation capacity over the past decade. However, policy action can further improve the country's ability to harness the full potential of STI as an instrument to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Opening up, Iran has opportunity to commercialize its science and technology skills
6 Dec 2016
The Islamic Republic of Iran has developed the science and technology skills necessary to be a global player in more than oil and gas, but must invest more in innovation to compete effectively in the global economy, according to an UNCTAD report.
Technology and Innovation Report 2015
16 Dec 2015
More can be done to make science and innovation policy work for development, says UNCTAD Technology and Innovation Report 2015
UNCTAD recommends 50 policy changes to boost science, technology and innovation in Oman
12 Nov 2014
UNCTAD's Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP) Review of Oman, which includes 50 recommendations to improve the country's national system of innovation, was presented to the country's Council of Ministers on 11 November.
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