Reforming Innovation Systems : Moving Beyond Lectures and Labs
These proceedings provide an overview of the main issues and conclusions presented at the 2009 Fontainebleau knowledge economy forum by an outstanding group of academics, practitioners, and policymakers. These proceedings encapsulate the debate tha...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/05/16461261/reforming-innovation-systems-moving-beyond-lectures-labs http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12713 |
| Summary: | These proceedings provide an overview of
the main issues and conclusions presented at the 2009
Fontainebleau knowledge economy forum by an outstanding
group of academics, practitioners, and policymakers. These
proceedings encapsulate the debate that was generated by: 1)
the World Bank's most recent Europe and Central Asia
Knowledge Economy (ECAKE) third report: restructuring of
research and development institutes across the Europe and
Central Asia (ECA) Region, which was put up for
consultations with the forum's participants; 2) the
proceedings reflect the discussion on the higher education
reform across the ECA region, specifically the merits and
challenges associated with world-class universities and the
capacity of ECA's Higher Education Institution's
(HEIs) to foster skills and job growth; and 3) the need for
adoption of a stronger national Quality Infrastructure (QI)
in countries across the ECA region as a key ingredient of
more effective commercialization of research output, product
development, and exports. The study builds on the extensive
literature on enterprise restructuring and privatization in
ECA on the one hand, and on the evidence from the Research
and Development Institute (RDI) statistics and case studies
on the other, to strategy for reform of RDIs. |
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