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    This document discusses the key aspects of a science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy for development. It defines an STI policy and explains that the objectives are to increase, organize, and use technological potential to achieve development goals and enhance a country's global position. Broad objectives include providing direction for long-term, medium-term, and short-term plans and assessing their performance. Specific objectives regulate processes like innovation, building technological and managerial capabilities, integrating local technology systems, and building a national innovation system. Designing and implementing an effective STI policy requires visionary leadership committed to allocating resources and building capacities for periodic review and improvement.

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    This document discusses the key aspects of a science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy for development. It defines an STI policy and explains that the objectives are to increase, organize, and use technological potential to achieve development goals and enhance a country's global position. Broad objectives include providing direction for long-term, medium-term, and short-term plans and assessing their performance. Specific objectives regulate processes like innovation, building technological and managerial capabilities, integrating local technology systems, and building a national innovation system. Designing and implementing an effective STI policy requires visionary leadership committed to allocating resources and building capacities for periodic review and improvement.

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    This document discusses the key aspects of a science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy for development. It defines an STI policy and explains that the objectives are to increase, organize, and use technological potential to achieve development goals and enhance a country's global position. Broad objectives include providing direction for long-term, medium-term, and short-term plans and assessing their performance. Specific objectives regulate processes like innovation, building technological and managerial capabilities, integrating local technology systems, and building a national innovation system. Designing and implementing an effective STI policy requires visionary leadership committed to allocating resources and building capacities for periodic review and improvement.

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    STI Policy

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    This document discusses the key aspects of a science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy for development. It defines an STI policy and explains that the objectives are to increase, organize, and use technological potential to achieve development goals and enhance a country's global position. Broad objectives include providing direction for long-term, medium-term, and short-term plans and assessing their performance. Specific objectives regulate processes like innovation, building technological and managerial capabilities, integrating local technology systems, and building a national innovation system. Designing and implementing an effective STI policy requires visionary leadership committed to allocating resources and building capacities for periodic review and improvement.

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    STI POLICY FOR DEVELOPMENT

    What is a STI Policy for Development;


    The need to develop and implement a STI Policy
    for Development;
    What are the broad objectives of a STI Policy for
    Developt;
    What are the specific objectives of a STI Policy for
    Developt;
    What it takes to design and implement efficiently

    a STI Policy.
    What is a STI Policy for Development?

    An STI Policy is defined as:

    ‘……the sum of the legislative and executive measures


    taken to increase, organize and use the national
    technological potential with the objective of achieving
    a country’s overall development aims and enhancing
    its position in the World’ (UNESCO, 1970).
    The need to develop and implement a STI Policy for
    Development; and its broad Objectives.

    A Science, Technology and Innovation Policy:

    i. Provides a doctrine and broad direction on the basis of which to


    design for execution long term, medium term, short term and
    specific plans, programs, strategies, actions, decisions with
    respect to making efficient and effective use of STI resources
    for development within a given entity and unit.

    ii. Provides a basis and a benchmark for measuring and assessing


    performance of the declared long term, medium term, short term and
    specific plans, programs, strategies, actions, decisions designed and
    made on the basis of the broad STI Policy.
    SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF AN STI POLICY FOR DEVELOPMENT
    i. Regulate and Manage ITT Process Efficiently;
    ii. Regulate and Manage Technical Change (Innovation)
    Process efficiently;
    iii. Regulate and Manage the process of Building
    Technological and Managerial Capability;
    iv. Fostering the process of building a homogenous local
    technology system;
    v. Contribute to building a well integrated National
    Innovation System.
    What it takes to design and implement efficiently a STI
    Policy.
    a) A correct mindset amongst top leadership and management regarding
    the power of STI for driving sustainable and competitive development
    under current globalizing conditions.
    b) Having a visionary and innovative leadership and management – with
    the passion, will power, drive, commitment and a ‘can do’ mentality
    always to try and do new things and do old things differently – always
    ‘changing the game’.
    c) A willingness, amongst leadership and top level management to
    allocate adequate resources for designing and implementing ‘game –
    changing’ initiatives and activities.
    d) Building capacities and using them efficiently for designing, executing,
    assessing, reviewing and improving – periodically - STI and related
    Policies, Plans, Programs, Strategies, Decisions, Actions etc for
    Development.

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