Competitive Industries and Innovation Program

Policy makers around the globe are striving to identify the best possible options in line with their countries' specific levels of development, and their locational, entrepreneurial and innovation potential in order to achieve tangible impact in terms of investment, job creation and income growth at scale. The project seeks to respond to this challenge by way of a novel, comprehensive approach entitled Competitiveness Industries and Innovation Programme (CIIP).

The CIIP is designed to help client countries identify specific opportunities to build and accelerate productive industries. To do so, the CIIP's approach is to bundle and sequence support of the basic elements of private sector competitiveness in an industry context to help accelerate impact on economic growth. These basic elements are:

• business environment

• infrastructure and skills

• access to finance

• institutional capacity

• innovation systems

Policy reforms related to innovation and competitive industries resourced and implemented.

Focused institutional reform plans resourced and implemented.

Improved skills and capacities of government counterparts.

Improved access to finance by industries and firms.

Expected results:  

Targeted country level interventions will be selected through a competitive process for financial support. The selected country interventions will then be implemented in a sequenced manner: 1) diagnosis, 2) comprehensive reform program design and 3) implementation. Global knowledge products will be undertaken to support individual country interventions through 1) global database on innovation performance and case studies as well as templates and tool kits for country level innovation assessments- 2) the creation of networks for the interaction and exchange of knowledge among practitioners and experts and 3) conducting on-the ground research and collect best practises.

Phase 1 03.10.2012 - 31.03.2022   (Completed)