Knowledge and skills for capacity development in research and innovation

By Alan Pettigrew. It is commonly acknowledged that nations are reliant on the capacity of their society to find solutions to problems, improve knowledge and transfer this knowledge into innovations that provide economic and social benefit. It is also well known that there is considerable variation in national capacity in these endeavours, especially in developing economies. The OECD’s IHERD project set out in part to document the state of the world ‘knowledge economy’. Read more...