Market incentives, the structure of regulations, the content and quality of research and education, and social values and preferences all determine technological trajectories. These recommendations reflect not only the need for hardware, but also for building associated local capacities and for providing market intermediation. Capacity building should target technology acquisition, skills development, and local policies and institutions to support the technology transfer process. Market intermediation should include matching technologies with applications, brokering partnerships, and facilitating negotiations and financing packages. Governments can support the establishment of dynamic flexible learning mechanisms within the private sector and with the rest of civil society.
Private companies can create greater environmental awareness.
Greater participation across society in the charting of technological trajectories, and in the use of the products of goods and services they generate go hand in hand with raising awareness through education and the media. Provide direct financial support like grants, subsidies, provision of equipment or services, loans and loan guarantees. Conduct market transformation programmes that focus on both technology supply and demand simultaneous. Develop certification procedures, and institutions, including test and measurement facilities. Investigate impacts of technology on property rights, test through participatory approaches, devise compensatory mechanisms for losers.