SMARTinnovationDEMO : Modeling and Simulation For The Promotion Of Technological Innovation In The Developing World
A Pilot Implementation Experiment in Benin Republic
By Aboubakar YARI and Venus YARI; For The Developing World
A Project of Biotech tropicana Community
According to the United Nations Task Force on Science, Technology and Innovation (un_sti) force « Most developing country governments acknowledge that science, technology, and innovation are important tools for development. But their policy approaches differ considerably. Most countries still distinguish between science, technology, and innovation policies designed to focus on the generation of new knowledge through support for R&D and industrial policies that emphasize building manufacturing capabilities. Convergence of the two approaches would focus attention on the use of existing technologies while building a foundation for long-term R&D activities………This approach requires that attention be paid to existing technologies, especially platform (generic) technologies that have broad applications for or impacts on the economy. Until recently, countries relied on investment in specific industries (textiles, automobile manufacturing, chemicals) with broad linkages in the productive sector to stimulate economic growth. Policy attention has now turned to ICT, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and new materials as platform technologies whose combined impacts will have profound implications for long-term economic transformation ». [1]
Cost and complexity are the major challenges to the developing world in applying technological innovation toward sustainable development. Resources and expertise are scarce in the developing world. [2]
Modeling and simulation were previously proven as a cost effective approach to address complex scientific questions. [3;4]
Applying the principles of modeling and simulation in its SMARThivPACK model, the Biotech tropicana Systems previously demonstrated the feasibility of « individual centered three tests » in monitoring HIV patients, in the resource-poor settings. [2;5]
In its 2002 guidelines and recommendations report, for monitoring HIV patients in the resource-poor settings, the World Health 0rganization (WHO) determined the feasibility of « three tests » in monitoring HIV patients in the developing world, as not attainable within the current resources and expertise available in the developing world. [6]
We agree with the USA Panel of the International AIDS Society (AIS_ USA) that, "with creativity and political will" the standard applied in monitoring HIV patients in the developed world, may be achieved in the developing world. [7]
We previously demonstrated that, applying guidelines and recommendations set forth in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals ( UN MDG), and the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation ( US MCC), in combination with principles of modeling and simulation, the major barriers that prevent the developing world from adequately using technological innovation for development, may be overcome beyond the issues of HIV, to all aspects of development. [5]
During a decade, from 2000 to 2010, we developed an innovation oriented Biotech incubator system dedicated to 1) promotion, 2) application, and 3) development, of alternative technologies, particularly biotechnologies as a support for development of the resource-poor settings : the Biotech tropicana Systems.
The second decade plan spanning 2011 to 2020, aims to get the system technologies out of the incubator to the market, on a global scale.
SMARTinnovationDEMO, a promotion activity of the Biotech tropicana Systems, aims to share the experiences and innovations that set the basis of the success of the Biotech tropicana Systems, with the global communities of the resource-poor settings.
Relying on the findings of the United Nations Science, Innovation, and Technology (STI) task force, on the importance of technologial innovation for development, we develop a promotion program aiming to raise awareness on the importance of STI for development, beyond the small circle of developing world universities, to the general population.
We develop a demonstration program, SMARTinnovationDEMO tailored to:
1) Primary education level
2) Secondary education level
3) Engineering and applied sciences, higher education level.
Details of the program are available in the Biotech tropicana Systems. The Biotech tropicana Systems initiated the implementation phase of the program.
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