Includes bibliographical references. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (2015). Technology and innovation report 2015: Fostering innovation policies for industrial development. New York: United Nations.

Chapter I: Industrial Development and Innovation Policy -- Introduction -- Scene Setting: The Need to Coordinate Industrial and Innovation Policy Frame-Works -- Shifting emphasis towards innovation in the global landscape -- Stagnating growth rates in unproductive sectors -- Synergies between industrial and innovation policies -- Note of the Choice of Region and Countries -- Methodology -- Definitions -- Industrial policy and industry -- Innovation -- Science, technology and innovation policy -- Report's Contribution and Structure -- Chapter II: Linkages Between Innovation Policies and Industrial Development -- Introduction -- Triggers of Industrial Development -- Why focus on industrial development policies? -- Creating a supportive environment for industry -- Goals and Incentives in Innovation Policies -- Why focus on innovation policies? -- Policy objectives of innovation policies -- Policy Overlaps -- Overlapping domains of interventions in policy definition -- What Matters -- Identify and eliminate policy redundancies -- Promote policy coherence and competence -- Use resources carefully -- Develop capacity for proper policy evaluation and monitoring -- Coordinate policymaking efforts and implementation with the local business environment more closely in order to engage the private sector -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter III: Coordinating Innovation and Industrial Policy: Nigeria's Experience -- Introduction -- Overall Trends in the Economy -- Underlying drivers of growth -- Challenges for structural diversification: 1960s to the present day -- Innovation and Industry Growth: Results of the Field Survey -- Enterprise characteristics in the three surveyed sectors -- Survey results: Nature of innovation in the three sectors -- Survey results: Sectoral weaknesses, innovation constraints and industry performance -- Outstanding Issues for Consideration -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter IV: Harnessing STI Policy for Industrial Development in the United Republic of Tanzania -- Introduction -- Current Dynamics and Structural Gaps in the Economy -- Sectoral Trends -- The development of innovation and industrial development policies 1960s until the present day -- The evolution of STI policy in the United Republic of Tanzania -- Innovation Capacity and Industrial Development: Results of the Field Survey -- Sector snapshots -- Survey results: Innovation opportunities and performance -- Survey results: Sectoral weaknesses, innovation constraints and industry performance -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter V: Promoting Innovation Policies for Industrial Development in Ethiopia -- Introduction -- Review of Industrial Development and Innovation Capacity in Ethiopia -- Overall economic trends: 1970s until the present day -- Industrial development policy strategies and performance -- Overview of Ethiopia's science, technology and innovation policies -- Coordinating Industrial and Innovation Policies for Firm-Level Support: Survey Results -- Sources of technological information -- Key impediments to upgrading production techniques and performance -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter VI: Partnering for Development: Harnessing the Synergies Between Innovation Policies and Industrial Policies -- Introduction -- General Findings -- Countries have elaborate industrial policy frameworks -- Countries have elaborate STI policy frameworks -- Enterprise support policies are the weak link -- Industrial Policy-Innovation Policy Interface: What Matters -- Gaps in policymaking structure exist -- Policies suffer from inconsistencies and often, overall incoherence -- Policy monitoring and evaluation mechanisms to ensure efficient use of existing resources -- Coordinate policymaking, governmental interventions and the business environment more closely