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The World Bank Group:
Science, Technology and Innovation Capacity Building and Disaster Risk
Management
Geophysical Hazards and Plate Boundary Processes in Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean
Oct 24-28, 2010
For Discussion
• The general role of the Bank Group• How does the Bank Group support STI
capacity building and partnerships?• The Bank’s role in Disaster Risk
Management and opportunities for data sharing / partnerships
World Bank Vision
“It is the vision of the World Bank Group to contribute to an inclusive and sustainable globalization – to overcome poverty, enhance growth with care for the environment, and create individual opportunity and hope.”
- World Bank President, Robert B. Zoellick
World Bank Sector Programs
AgricultureEnergyClimate ChangeWater and SanitationHigher EducationDRMGlobal HealthSustainable DevelopmentGood Governance
STI is a Key Dimension of These Programs
World Bank Strengths
Knowledge of the country and various
sectorsInvolvement in preparation of
PRSP and CASBUT limited
scientific/ technical capacity
Financing to help transform
partnership proposals into
game changing policies and
programs and to support essential systemic policy
reformsBUT limited
capacity to fund regional initiatives
Convening power around critical development
issues like STI capacity building, global warming,
food crisis, urbanization,
growth, MDGs, etc.BUT searching for
a strategic STI partnership vision
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WB Knowledge Strategy
• STI Global Expert Team• Key Role of Partnerships• Innovation at the Heart of Development
Game Changers in STI Partnerships: What Can We Implement?
Training an STI Workforce - Global Science CorpsInclusive Innovation, Technology
Transfer and Entrepreneurship ProgramsStrategic and Regional Research and
Development EffortsScaling up Existing STI PartnershipsNew Financial Mechanisms for Regional
and Sustainable Support
STI Capacity Building Partnerships Should Be:
Systemic: For game-changing, systemic results, need to build capacity in individual institutions while also improving governance of the broader system
Sustainable: Improvements need to be able to endure after initial funding runs out
Synergistic: For optimal development impact, should strive to improve all links of the STI capacity building chain
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STI Capacity Building
STI Capacity Building
Human Resource Capacity Building
Acquire Existing
Knowledge
R&D to adapt
knowledge for local
solutions
TechnologyTransfer
Enterprise Innovation
STI Policy
Making / Science in Policy Making
• Not about abstract, theoretical scienceBut about finding
practical solutions to practical social and economic development problems
Need to focus on all links in the chain –ignoring even one weakens the development impact!!
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STI Vicious CircleWeak
human capital
Minimal funding and poor governance for STI
Poor quality science
Low social and
economic relevance
Limited commercial application
Brain drain
Limited support for funding increases
Weak partners for external
groups
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Fostering Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship: Challenge
• Much of the technology that developing countries need to solve their problems already exists and is in widespread use elsewhere. Therefore, developing countries must build the capacity to find, absorb and use these technologies.
• Current STI systems in most countries are not geared to spinning-in, adapting, and spinning out existing technology.
Bank plays lead role in establishing tech transfer centers and mobilizing technical partners to provide requisite operational training and innovation-readiness assessments.
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Import or spin-in
technology
Adapt it for local use
spin out to local firms
WBG Tools
• Money• Mentoring• Markets• Management• Technical know-how
Relevant Science & Technology
Inclusive Innovation
$20 bucks
The STI Global Expert Teamand Global Forum Action Plan
• Robust Client Demand - Government officials and Bank TTLs in both MICs and LICs are calling on the STI GET to provide the “how-to know-how” needed to convert STI capacity building intentions into STI capacity building programs, private sector/SME business opportunities, and sustainable growth
• Global Forum and Action Plan - explored how well-designed capacity building partnerships can: (i) foster “inclusive innovations”, (ii) promote innovation and entrepreneurship via technology commercialization; and (iii) train the next generation of knowledge workers
• External Partnerships - the Bank is being called on to intermediate knowledge and capacity building flows between developing country clients with specific development needs and local and global partners who possess a great deal of the technical expertise needed to address these problems
Project Examples• 2009 Global Forum and Action Plan• MIT-World Bank Partnership• Carnegie / RISE Higher Education Program• OECD Global Science Forum on R&D Collaboration• Tunisia Technology Development Strategy• Arab World Initiative• Madinah Knowledge Cities conference• Inclusive Innovation Project for Vietnam• Review of South Asia Centers of Excellence Initiative
Bank Group’s DRM Work• Identification of problems• Data collection and tool building• Provide evidence-based advice and solutions to
governments/other stakeholders• Keep the Bank’s contribution relevant and
coordinated with other activities• Include DRM as a component for other Bank programs
(i.e., land use, infrastructure, education)• $ Billions in funding through grants and loans for DRM
tools, data collection, technical/policy services, knowledge sharing and on-the-ground support
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