KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT Emerging Challenges and Opportunities

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KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENTEmerging
Challenges and Opportunities

• Calestous Juma
• May 22, 2003

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Outline

• Development challenges
• Conventional approaches
• Evolutionary approaches
• Designing the future

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Development challenges

• Meeting basic needs
• Competing in the global economy
• Making the sustainability transition

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Conventional approaches

• Comparative advantage
• Macroeconomic adjustment
• Governance and political reform

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Evolutionary approaches

• Evolutionary theories
• Technological change
• Institutional innovation

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Designing the future

• Improving the policy environment
• Building human capabilities
• Promoting enterprise development
• Investing in research and development
• Looking ahead