Innovation ecosystem 101: Fundamentals on building competitive and innovative ICT-centric ecosystems

The course introduces key terminologies, concepts, tools and steps to assess your country's innovation capacity through practical information.

Topics

SDG
SDG9: Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
SDG17: Partnerships for the goals
SDG 17: Technology
Subject
Innovation and technology
Keywords
creative industries
digital
digital economy
digital government
digital technology

The course covers:

  • key terminologies, concepts, tools and steps to assess their countries’ innovation capacity through practical information;
  • innovation, digital ecosystems and digital transformation, and their relationship to national development priorities;
  • how digital entrepreneurship can contribute to making your country an innovation-driven economy, who the key stakeholders are in an ecosystem and their roles in digital transformation;
  • your country's digital innovation gap and how to measure it;
  • how to diagnose the specifics of the digital innovation gap; and
  • how to develop a high-level roadmap to close this gap
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Target Audience

This course is intended for policy-makers, decision-makers, innovators and ecosystem builders who wish to build thriving entrepreneurial communities that can navigate technological revolutions and create competitive ICT industries.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion, course participants should understand:

  • the key terminologies, concepts and tools to assess their countries’ innovation capacity;
  • nnovation, digital ecosystems and transformation;
  • how to identify their country’s ecosystem stakeholders;
  • how to measure their country’s digital innovation gap; and
  • how to develop a roadmap to close the gap.

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