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Inventing a Better Future
1. The urgency to promote worldwide science and technology capacity
2. Science, technology, and society
2.1 National S&T strategies identify priorities foraddressing critical needs
2.1 Recommendations
2.2 Independent scientific advice improves decision-making for public policies
2.3 The public requires dissemination of new knowledge for addressing critical issues
3. Expanding human resources
4. Creating world-class research institutions
5. Engaging the public and private sectors
6. Targeted funding of research and training efforts
7. From ideas to impacts: coalitions for effective action
Annex A: Endorsement InterAcademy Panel
Annex B: Agendas for major actors in building science and technology capacity
Annex C: Study panel biographies
Annex D: Glossary
Annex E: Acronyms and abbreviations
Annex F: Selected bibliography
Executive Summary
Front Matter
Notes
Inventing a Better Future
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2.1 Recommendations
Every nation should develop an S&T strategy that specifies the national priorities for research and development and spells out national funding commitments.
National governments should develop national strategies for science and technology in full consultation with the country's science, engineering, and medical academies, its professional societies, and the industrial sector.
The national strategies should include support for basic science and recognize the need for high-level training to develop, as much as possible, national competence in selected frontier areas of science and technology that are most suitable for sustainable economic development and social well-being.
National funding commitments for science and technology should rise to at least 1 percent - preferably 1.5 percent - of Gross Domestic Product for each developing nation, and should be disbursed using a merit-based approach.
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