Decides to make the following recommendations for consideration by national Governments, the Commission on Science and Technology for Development and the UN Conference on Trade and Development: (a) Governments are encouraged to take into account the findings of the Commission and undertake the following actions: (i) Mainstream science and technology promotion and investment into their national development plans; (ii) Formulate and implement policies and programmes; (iii) Create innovative funding strategies and compensation and reward structures in academic and research institutions to provide incentives for scientific and technological talent to remain within their countries and promote research directed to addressing national and regional development challenges; (iv) Establish international needs-based partnerships, where countries and their private sectors can collaborate on research and development; (v) Develop a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship, support the development of technological capabilities in small and medium-sized enterprises and promote incubators for promising technologies; (vi) Launch campaigns to raise awareness of the importance of innovation for wealth creation and national welfare through mass media and high-profile awards; (vii) Reaffirm the essential role that official development assistance plays as a complement to other sources of financing for development and fulfil the internationally agreed commitments regarding official development assistance; (viii) Make considered decisions to balance short-term and long-term science, technology and innovation goals and policies, evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of procuring or licensing technologies, as compared with producing them indigenously; (ix) Focus national efforts, when facing a generally low level of science, technology and innovation capacity, on building and strengthening indigenous scientific, technical, vocational and engineering capacities to select and use existing knowledge resources, in order to create jobs, generate wealth and achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Adopted without vote, 36th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 2009 (Geneva, 6-31 July 2009) - E/2009/INF/2/Add.1 - 21 Aug. 2009 - p. 38-42.