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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
2.2 Independent scientific advice improves decision-making for public policies
2.2 Recommendations
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
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2.2 Recommendations
Each national government should establish trusted indigenous mechanisms for obtaining advice on scientific and technological questions related to policies, programs, and international negotiations.
Each nation involved in the development, production, or use of new technologies, such as those deriving from biotechnology, should have the means to assess and manage their benefits and risks. Governments should therefore ensure that indigenous S&T capacities are in place (with international inputs when necessary) not only for effective adoption of a new technology, but also for help in implementing public-health, human-safety, and environmental guidelines or regulations that address potential side-effects of the new technology. The possibility of long-term effects should be kept in mind when setting up such systems, which must remain fully adaptable to rapid advances in scientific and engineering knowledge.
The coordination of such efforts among nations to permit the sharing of experience and the standardization of some types of risk assessment is highly desirable.
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