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== Please keep in mind that this wiki is a working document to store reference documents during development of the Innovation Policy Platform (IPP). It is a working draft and does not represent the final IPP look and feel, nor include the complete structure. ==

The World Bank, in coordination with the OECD, is developing a new joint project to build an Innovation Policy Platform (IPP), a web-based, open data interactive space aimed supporting collective learning processes of conceptual and “how-to” aspects of innovation policy (including statistics, case studies and policy briefs) tailored to the needs of developing and developed countries.

The IPP will mobilize global resources, knowledge, and expertise to help policy practitioners learn about various elements of innovation policy design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, as well as identification and prioritization of the good practice solutions most appropriate for their contexts. Equally important, the IPP will facilitate global knowledge exchange and collaboration. In this sense, the IPP will make all aspects of innovation policy know-how more accessible and user-friendly: creating, acquiring, sharing, adapting, and applying knowledge, by offering:

> > > The project for building the IPP involves the curation of existing innovation knowledge and designing better codification and packaging of these resources. Construction will be carried out jointly with World Bank and OECD experts distributed across different countries, as well as with external experts and academic communities, who will be encouraged to contribute materials and to engage in quality control activities. This exercise will be developed in a modular way, with the primary building blocks being modules that cover the main domain areas having an impact on a country’s innovation performance (public sector research, entrepreneurship, human resources, etc.).
 * Up-to-date, extensive, and searchable repository of high-quality information on innovation policy and its outcomes. The IPP will enable policy makers to get quick access to up-to-date conceptual and operational documents from the World Bank, OECD and other countries. It will do this through a user-friendly, searchable platform oriented to solving operational challenges and providing concrete answers to policy questions.
 * Knowledge generation. The IPP will encourage user-submitted materials to better capture and disseminate knowledge from practitioners.
 * Open collaborative network. The IPP will feature an interactive and collaborative interface where problems are shared and solutions identified. It will be a web-based “living resource,” encouraging intelligent benchmarking and international mutual learning and exchange. Active interactions, feedback and peer review structures will enhance the learning opportunities and allow the IPP to be an active instrument for policy debates.