By Karen MacGregor. A new paradigm began emerging around higher education, research, innovation and development assistance at an experts meeting hosted by the OECD and France’s Institute of Research for Development. Higher education researchers, science policy experts and development agencies came together to build bridges between them. The
meeting culminated the OECD’s Project on Innovation, Higher Education and Research for Development –
IHERD – which aimed to increase knowledge and understanding of policy and management instruments in higher education, research and innovation, so that developing countries could better plan, produce and use research for development.
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