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Capturing the potential opportunities of technical progress and ICT for growth and development requires a new approach to organizational issues and the role of human and societal capital. After reviewing fundamental aspects of research and innovation policy, this chapter reflects on how to approach country-specific considerations and draw lessons from best practice.
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Patents, for instance, represent a sort of compromise that leaves inventors with a temporary monopoly on the use of their inventions. There is no single optimal best solution that can help determine exactly where to draw the line on the optimal stringency of patent support.
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The OECD defines SMEs as having less than 250 employees, whereas micro firms have less than 10 and small firms less than 50.
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The most impressive case in Africa is that of Botswana, which has demonstrated stable high growth in the last few decades thanks to substantial income from mining, notably of diamonds. Exceptionally high price stability for this commodity has helped fuel predictability in public revenue and underpins constant growth. Looking ahead, however, conditions may well become less favourable. Botswana remains highly dependent on diamond production and exports, where extraction conditions are set to become increasingly demanding (Kojo 2010).
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For instance, Finland and Sweden displayed important spillovers and spinoffs emanating from the pulp and paper industry, benefitting the long-term growth potential of these economies as a whole (Blomström and Kokko 2007).
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This and the ensuing three chapters in Part 1, which were prepared under the responsibility of Thomas Andersson and Abdelkader Djeflat, draw in part on “Best Practice in Science and Technology Policies”, the interim INCONET-GCC Report. Sara Johansson de Silva is thanked for statistical analysis and Qammar Abbas, Glenn Gran, Matthieu Roest and Jassim Sheikh for data compilation and analytical contributions.
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Andersson, T., Djeflat, A. (2013). Capacity Building, Rationale and Learning from Best Practice. In: Andersson, T., Djeflat, A. (eds) The Real Issues of the Middle East and the Arab Spring. Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5248-5_3
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