Innovation Strategies for Sustaiinable Development

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Science and Technology Capacity and the Knowledge Society(asStrategy for Sustainable Development
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Raw MaterialsAgri products

Industrialproducts

Knowledgeproducts

Informationproducts

Innovation

Networks

Technology

IndustrialSociety

AgriculturalSociety

InformationSociety

KnowledgeSociety

Societal Transformation


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What is a Knowledge Society ?

That uses knowledge holistically to empower andenrich people and is an integral driver of sustainabledevelopment (societal transformation)

A life-long learning society committed to innovation Has the capacity to generate, diffuse, utilize and

protect knowledge - creates economic wealth andsocial equity

Enlightens people towards an integrated view of lifeas a fusion of mind, body and spirit

Planning Commission Report, India 2001


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The Age of Science

The 20thcenturys unprecedented gainsin advancing human development anderadicating poverty came largely fromtechnological breakthroughs


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In a globalizing, knowledge driven world with

increasing importance of service industries andtechnological competitiveness, this contribution

can only become higher.

S & T as an engine for development ?

Consensus is emerging among policy makers and

economists that at least half, if not more, of the

economic growth in countries is directly

attributable to science and technology.


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There is hardly any social problem on whichscience cannot make some contribution

-D. K. Price, Scientific Estate

Science is never sufficient to solve a problemcompletely; it is, however, always necessary.

Science for policyand

Policy for Science


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Policy, not charity, will determine

whether new technologies become atool for human development

everywhere

UNDP-HDR 2001

There is enough in this world for

everyone's needs but not greed-Mahatma Gandhi


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The Dignity of Work

Development is about expanding the

choices people have to lead lives thatthey value

..But, two thirds of the world populationlives in conditions of relative to completedeprivation..What choices do they have?

.1 billion without safe drinking water, 2.4 billion

without access to basic sanitation, 1 billion illiterates


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The Paradox of Our Time


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Growing inequalities

Knowledge Divide


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Rising Inequities Inequities are rising within and between

countries

Assets of worlds 3 richest people exceedcombined GDP of poorest 48 countries

1.2 billion people living on less than $1 a dayand 2.8 billion on less than $2 a day (1998)


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Industrialized nations

vsLess Developed Countries (LDCs)

Widening gaps in

human resource capacity

S & T infrastructure

which are critical in the new knowledgebased world


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THE POWER OF HUMAN CAPITAL

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Researchers and Engineers per 10,000

workers

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USA

EU

China

LDCs Non-Asia

India 1.49


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When R & D investments beginsto exceed capital investment, the

corporation can be said to beshifting from a place for

production to a place forknowledge creation

But, 80 countries are classifiedas scientifically lagging andhave no capital

RAND S & T Report 2001

Nanotechnology

Genomics

Investment Driven R&D Regime
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Bend the Curves

The Gap

Time

2003

urrenttrends greater gaps scientific apartheid


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Among the many challenges of the

global knowledge divide,the growing S&T gap

between North and South is the most

important

Distribution of S & T capacities is even more lopsidedthan that of economic power


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A long way to go
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But there is promise

The HOLE-IN-THE WALL EXPERIMENT, NIIT, INDIA

Experiments in Minimally Invasive Education
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..and there is great potential of richhuman capital in the south

Population can be a renewable knowledge

resource as important as capital


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Inventing the Future

Urgent Need for

S & T Capacity Building for transitionto the knowledge society

Recognize it as a worldwide challenge


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Capacity building is a continuum

S & T Capacity Building-The Road Ahead

Need for a global perspective andcommitment- harmonize with local contexts

Rethink by global institutions that deal withscientific knowledge

New understanding of south--talent is allpervasive, access & opportunity are not

Practical, pragmatic strategies


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Broad Banding-S & T Capacities

it is more appropriate to view innovations as thefusion of different types of technology rather than as a

series of technical breakthroughs. Fusion means more

than a combination of different technologies:it invokes an

arithmetic in which one plus one makes three

F. Kodama

Thatdeveloping countries need only relevanttechnologies is a myth

Every country needs the capacity to understand and

adapt global technologies for local needs

Integration of immediate needs and long term vision


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10,000 years ago..

Let Knowledge come from all sides

-Rig Veda

Segmentation of knowledge leads to divisiveness

Let knowledge be harnessed to uplift the

blossoms in the dust too


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Clusters of Action points

Human Resources-New paradigms in science education

Universal scientific and technical literacy

Science, its values and Societal engagement

Institutions, infrastructure and networks

Information access-particularly to scientific journals

Public/Private partnerships

Policy issues - national and international


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InterAcademyCouncil

Activities Planned

Gender Issues in Science & Technology

Use of Internet for Distance Education in S & T

Science and Technology in Preserving WorldHeritage Sites (UNESCO)


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Today, the Third World is only

slowly waking up to the realization

that in the final analysis, creation,mastery and utilization of modern

science and technology is basicallywhat distinguishes the South from theNorth. On S &T depend the standards

of living of a nation

- Prof. Abdus Salam

Founder TWAS


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Thank You
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