COVID-19 innovation in low and middle-income countries

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Author(s)
Ramalingam, B. and Kumpf, B.
Publication language
English
Pages
25pp
Date published
01 Apr 2021
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
COVID-19, Innovation
Organisations
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

This paper discusses innovation in low and middle-income countries, focusing on the role it has played in local and national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the lessons from this effort for how innovation might be harnessed to address wider development and humanitarian challenges by mobilising resources, improving processes, catalysing collaboration and encouraging creative and contextually grounded approaches. The paper also examines how international development and humanitarian organisations can improve their support for local and national innovation efforts.