The concept effectively is to develop National Systems of Innovation identified in Section 4.3 . Capacity issues in all states including those in the Southern countries are embedded in political, cultural, and social dynamics of enormous complexity, a good number of which are likely to be beyond the understanding of the donor community. Raising the environmental performance of organisations and institutions in any society is a daunting task even for its own citizens. Capacity-building is required at all stages in the process of technology transfer. It is a slow and complex process to which long-term commitments must be made for resources and to which the host country must also be committed if results are to bear fruit.
Fundamental change requires an autonomous capacity to innovate, acquire and adapt technologies.