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Innovation will be key to aligning economic progress with ecological sustainability and social inclusion and to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. Policy makers from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine gathered in Minsk on 17-18 November 2015 to reflect on the results of their Innovation Performance Reviews, five years since the inception of UNECE's programme, and to discuss recent progress on innovation policy and options for further improving innovation capabilities.
Based on the recommendations made in these reviews, the four countries have undertaken measures to improve innovation governance, reform universities and academic institutions, invest in techno parks and business incubators, improve the business and investment climate for innovative start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises, strengthen international cooperation in science and research, and reform public research financing to encourage cooperation with industry. UNECE will cooperate with all four countries in the coming years to provide advice and build capacity for implementing policy reforms.
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