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Governments around the world are seeking more effective approaches to fostering innovation. Ensuring innovation policymakers have the right skills, insights, tools, evidence and networks to help design, implement, evaluate and improve innovation policies is essential if these policies are to have the desired impacts on economic growth and social challenges.

We are partnering with Innovate UK and a unique team of academic, public and private sector organisations to lead the design and delivery of a tailor-made development programme for innovation policymakers in a range of emerging economies around the world.

In many areas, the UK is seen as a global leader on innovation policy issues and in capacity building. Yet there is a global shortage of resources, professional development and peer-support networks for public officials tasked with designing and implementing better support for innovation.

By bringing together a strong network of UK experts around an innovative, system-wide capacity building programme, Nesta aims to increase the level of international collaboration on innovation policy and support the development of other countries' innovation systems.