Building the knowledge base for innovation

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2010-09

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The presentation focuses on innovation systems and knowledge generation/knowledge ecology. Innovating out of poverty requires supportive mechanisms such as: Financial services facilitating linkages; Money transfer; Banking services; Insurance; Empowering the unbanked (women). Knowledge policy is not just education policy. Knowledge creation, transmission and use is part of innovation systems.

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INNOVATION SYSTEMS, BOTTOM OF THE PYRAMID, SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION, KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, CAPACITY BUILDING, SOUTH OF SAHARA

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Gault, F. (2010). Building the knowledge base for innovation [PowerPoint slides]. Proceedings of the Design and Evaluation of Innovation Policy in Developing Countries (DEIP), Dakar, SN.

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