Building science, technology, and innovation capacity in Rwanda : developing practical solutions to practical problems / Alfred Watkins and Anubha Verma, editors.

Even a subsistence agricultural economy such as Rwanda needs to develop science, technology and innovation (STI) capacity if it hopes to solve such everyday, practical problems as providing energy and clean drinking water to rural villages, and competing in the global economy by producing and sellin...

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Main Author: Watkins, Alfred J.
Corporate Author: World Bank
Other Authors: Verma, Anubha
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, ©2008.
Series:Africa Region human development series.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (page 107) and index. 
505 0 |a FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; EXECUTIVE SUMMARY; CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW AND SUMMARY OF RESULTS; Figure 1.1: Enterprise-based Model of STI Capacity Building; Figure 1.2: Cross-cutting Nature of STI Capacity Building; Figure 1.3: STI Capacity Building Cuts Across Traditional Silos of Development; Figure 1.4: Capacity-building Needs at Various Skill Levels; Box 1.1: Improving Institutional Capacity and Building anInnovation Culture; CHAPTER 2: THE FOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRY; CHAPTER 3: VALUE-ADDED EXPORTS; CHAPTER 4: DEVELOPMENT AND DIFFUSION OF APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES. 
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