Foresight for new collaborative platforms to support LMIC science systems : technical report
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2022-07
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The wide diffusion of ideas and focus of funders around the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) released by the United Nations (UN), suggest that the era of predominance of economic growth as the main driver of welfare is in decline. The notion that development should be focused primarily on economic growth with concerns about poverty reduction, education, health, inequality, and the environment, only to be taken seriously once growth has been achieved, is no longer convincing. All of these goals must be pursued simultaneously and with attention to the synergies between each that can be built in doing so. But to what extent are science systems adapting to this new challenge? This Project utilised novel national science system characterisation and participatory foresight approaches based on ‘seeds of change’ (‘weak signals’ or ‘pockets of the future in the present’) to explore some of these issues.
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Final Technical Report
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COLLABORATIVE PLATFORMS, LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES, SCIENCE SYSTEMS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS, TRANSFORMATION, GLOBAL