Innovation : applying knowledge in development /
The Millennium Development Goals adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000 are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015--income poverty hunger disease exclusion lack of infrastructure and shelter-while promoting gender equality education hea...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Earthscan,
2005.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781849773539 184977353X 1423708709 9781423708704 9781844072187 1844072185 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword; Task force members; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Millennium Development Goals; Executive summary; Part 1: Mapping the terrain; Chapter 1: Developing as learning; Chapter 2: How science and technology can contribute to achieving the Goals; Chapter 3: Innovation and economic advance; Part 2: Gearing up; Chapter 4: Platform technologies with wide applicability; Chapter 5: Adequate infrastructure services as a foundation for technology; Chapter 6: Investing in education in science and technology; Chapter 7: Promoting technology-based business activities.