Advancing sustainable development in Africa
<p>The report provides a detailed analysis of the design and implementation of Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) roadmaps aimed at advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Sub-Saharan
Innovation
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Innovation and adaptation in the climate crisis: technology for the new normal
There are multiple interdependent approaches to climate adaptation, including economic incentives, policy and regulation, locally-led intervention, and nature-based approaches. Technology is a key enabler
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Global innovation index 2023: innovation in the face of uncertainty
The 2023 edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII) takes the pulse of global innovation trends against the background of an economic environment fraught with uncertainty. It reveals the ranking of this
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Technology and innovation report 2023: opening green windows
Green technologies – those used to produce goods and services with smaller carbon footprints – are growing and providing increasing economic opportunities but many developing countries could miss them
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Global Innovation Index 2022: What is the future of innovation-driven growth?
The 2022 edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII) tracks the most recent global innovation trends against the background of an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, slowing productivity growth and other evolving
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Quantifying environmentally relevant and circular plastic innovation: historical trends, current landscape and the role of policy
Innovation is key to reducing the environmental impacts of plastics. However, literature is generally lacking in the field of environmentally relevant plastics innovation. This paper develops an innovative
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Tracking clean energy innovation in the business sector: an overview
This Overview reviews a range of such sources including financial fillings, venture capital deals, patents, scientific publications, marketed products and firm-level perceptions. It recommends that governments
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India innovation index 2021
Karnataka, Manipur and Chandigarh have topped in their respective categories in the third edition of NITI Aayog’s India Innovation Index. While Karnataka has topped again in the ‘Major States’ category,
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Global Innovation Index2021: tracking innovation through the COVID-19 crisis
Despite the economic devastation wrought by COVID-19, the new technology sector continued to thrive and prosper last year, the UN’s intellectual property agency said in a new report. According to the findings
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The impact of environmental policy on clean innovation
This paper studies the effect of climate change mitigating policies on innovation in clean energy technologies. Results suggest that the tightening of environmental policies since the early 1990s have