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&
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1. Investing in R&D and innovation in developing
countries for addressing societal challenges
José Guimón
Department of Development Economics
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
jose.guimon@uam.es
5th INCO Conference: “Addressing Future Challenges” (Athens, June 2014)
2. Presentation outline
• Introduction
• Why is R&D investment important in developing countries?
• And why should the public sector intervene?
• Social innovation as a priority for low-income countries
– Dimensions of social innovation
– ‘Grand challenge’ thinking
– ‘Small challenge’ thinking
• Conclusions
3. Sussex Manifesto, 1969
• An advisory note to the UN, very influential in framing thinking
about development and technological change
• Geographical concentration of inventive inputs in high income
economies means that technological progress is biased towards
needs of rich consumers, generating large scale and capital
intensive technologies which are not appropriate for low income
countries
• Underinvestment in R&D in low income countries is exacerbated
by the “external brain-drain” of talent to high income countries
• There is also an “internal brain-drain”: domestic S&T systems,
(largely publicly-funded) modelled on advanced country standards,
with little impact on local economic needs
4. Source: Kaplinsky 2011, Table 2, for 1970 and 1990. UNESCO (UIS), 2014, for 2002 and 2009.
1970 1990 2002 2009
% of global R&D
expenditure ($PPP)
2 10.2 17.5 27.1
R&D expenditure
(% of GDP)
n.a. 0.7 0.8 1.1
R&D in developing countries has
increased substantially since 1970
5. Source: UNESCO, UIS 2014
But it remains very low compared to
developed countries
R&D expenditure per capita in
USD (current, ppp)
2002 2007 2009
World 126 173 187
Developed countries 543 723.1 757
Developing countries (excl.
least developed countries)
31 58 72
Least developed countries 1.8 2.3 2.6
7. Why is R&D investment important in
developing countries?
• R&D can contribute to the development of domestic industry and
agriculture (competitiveness and productivity agenda)
• R&D can contribute to addressing societal challenges like water and
energy supply, health, etc. (social agenda)
• Catching-up based merely on acquisition of foreign technology is
sub-optimal (Bell and Albu, 1999)
• The two faces of R&D - not only generation of new knowledge, but
also absorptive capacity (Cohen and Levinthal, 1990)
• The interrelationship between R&D investment, high level
education, and the creation and retention of a scientific community
• R&D is key to foster diversification of the economy towards higher
value added activities, and this structural change is key to economic
prosperity (Hausman and Hidalgo, 2011)
8. And why should governments intervene?
• To compensate low levels of private investment in R&D
• To address societal challenges
Evolving rationales for innovation policy:
• Market failures (Arrow, 1962)
• Systemic failures (Smith, 2000)
• Public value failures (Bozeman and Sarewitz, 2011)
Key challenge: Need for a compelling rationale (supported by
ongoing evaluations) to be able to advocate for the continuation
and expansion of R&D investments given competing development
agendas, other more acute social needs, and severe financing
constraints.
9. Dimensions of social innovation
• Social innovation as innovative responses to unmet social demands
– Targets needs of segments of society that are more vulnerable, less able to be
involved in the market economy, and poorly served by public services.
– Related to inclusive innovation and pro-poor innovation
• Social innovation as innovative responses to societal challenges
– Innovation to bear on challenges facing society as a whole, often on a global
scale
– Connected to grand challenges and sustainability agenda
• Social innovation as innovation to achieve systemic transformation
of society
– Innovation to contribute to the re-shaping of society itself, including policies,
organizational structures, institutions and processes, delivery systems and
services, methods and ways of working, etc.
– Social innovation outputs contribute to the reform of society in the direction
of a more widely participative arena
10. ‘Grand challenge’ thinking
• Grand challenges as an increasingly popular feature of science policy
around the world
– Identification of grand challenges for priority setting, leading to mission-
oriented research programs in areas like climate change, transport, energy,
ageing populations…
• Addressing these complex, open-ended research areas require
reconfiguration of science systems and policies
– “Designing research policy for grand challenges requires a long-term
perspective and a broader notion of innovation than is usual” (Kuhlmann and
Rip 2014)
– “The agenda-setting, coordination and conduct of science, and the ways in
which scientific knowledge is diffused and used, are critical”(Keenan et al. 2013)
• In developing countries, grand challenges are associated with MDG
agenda
– Charities such as Gates Foundation (with its focus on health in poor countries)
play a critical role, but local governments remain crucial
11. Enhancing international collaboration
• Grand challenges to be addressed at global level reflecting:
1. The scale of the objectives addressed
2. The international nature of science itself
• Shift from technology transfer mentality to collaborative and
inclusive approach
– Low-income countries not mere recipients of technology but partners for
social innovation, providing inputs on context-specific opportunities and
constraints
– Empower low-income countries to participate in innovation to address grand
challenges both at the development and at the diffusion stage
• Global production and circulation of knowledge entails delicate
balance between cooperation and competition (in priority-setting,
human capital, patents, etc.)
12.
13. ‘Small challenge’ thinking
• Appropriate technology: “Small is beautiful” (Schumacher)
– Incremental innovation to adjust existing technologies to specific user
contexts (e.g. lack of electricity)
– Frugal innovation to reach the bottom of the pyramid
• Grassroots innovation (innovation by the poor)
– To empower lower income communities
– To transform informal business activity into formal activity
• Demand-oriented policies to finance small scale research projects
that address local needs below the radar of current markets
– Example: “Quien se le mide?” Program (Antioquia, Colombia, 2013-present)
14. Some examples
• ICT (for banking, health, education,…)
• Renewable energies
• Fighting malnutrition
• Access to drinking water
• Adapting existing technologies to low
income contexts
• Leapfrogging to newest technologies
• End super-functionality, reduce costs
• Institutional change to accompany
technological change
Drivers of success
28. Questions rather than conclusions
• How can developing countries better align their R&D efforts
towards societal needs?
• How to combine “grand challenge” with “small challenge”
initiatives in social innovation?
• What lessons can be learnt from recent experiences in
international R&D cooperation to address societal challenges?
• What new power relations are emerging in global production
and circulation of knowledge as a result of the focus on global
societal challenges?
29. References
• Arrow (1962) Economic welfare and the allocation of resources for invention, in: The
Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity, Natl. Bur. Econ. Res.
• Bell and Albu (1999) Knowledge Systems and Technological Dynamism in Industrial
Clusters in Developing Countries, World Development 27: 1715-1734.
• BEPA (2011) Empowering People, Driving Change: Social Innovation in the European
Union; Bureau of European Policy Advisors, European Commission, Brussels
• Bozeman and Sarewitz (2011) Public value mapping and science policy evaluation,
Minerva 49(1)
• Cohen and Levinthal (1990) Absorptive capacity: a new perspective on learning and
innovation, Administrative Science Quarterly 35: 128-152
• Hausmann and Hidalgo (2011) The network structure of economic output, Journal of
Economic Growth 16: 309-342.
• Kaplinsky (2011) Schumacher meets Schumpeter: appropriate technology below the
radar, Research Policy 40: 193-203
• Keenan et al. (2012) Orienting international science cooperation to meet global ‘grand
challenges’, Science and Public Policy 39: 166-177
• Kuhlmann and Rip (2014) The challenge of addressing Grand Challenges. A think piece
on how innovation can be driven towards the “Grand Challenges” as defined under the
European Union Framework Programme Horizon 2020, Report to ERIAB
• Smith (2000) Innovation as a systemic phenomenon: rethinking the role of policy,
Enterprise and Innovation Management Studies 1(1):73-102.