This briefing paper focuses on innovation in development and humanitarian efforts in the context of the coronavirus … (COVID-19) pandemic. Following an exploration of the overall role of innovation in the COVID-19 response, it examines … innovation efforts underway in international development and humanitarian responses to the pandemic, how well these efforts are …

innovation systems impact on the mechanisms for innovation and diffusion of technology, and examines the rationale for policy in …, paying insufficient attention to linkages within national innovation systems and to broader structural reforms. They focus … too much on the small high-tech segment of the economy and too little on fostering innovation and technology diffusion …