Cutting-edge research and development for impactful industrial strategies.
Community
Our global network of partners and advisors includes experts with deep technical knowledge across industries and in all aspects of industrial policy and economic development, historians and economists with deep understanding of the economics and politics of economic transformation, and many more types of essential knowledge and skills.
Advisory
Drawing on our vast networks and decades of experience designing, implementing, and studying industrial strategies around the world, we advise governments at all levels, firms or all types, and civil society organizations to co-craft impactful, values-driven strategies.
Knowledge
We develop actionable research to inform industrial strategy and maintain a knowledge clearinghouse featuring useful (old and new) research, technical documents, and case studies from across the globe. We partner with cutting-edge data science and innovation experts to provide the latest methodologies for the analysis of global value chains, production networks, and productive capabilities.
Advisory
Drawing on our vast networks and decades of experience designing, implementing, and studying industrial strategies around the world, we advise governments at all levels, firms or all types, and civil society organizations to co-craft impactful, values-driven strategies.
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Our team members have developed and implemented procurement strategies for governments and United Nations agencies such as UNICEF and ECLAC across a range of industrial sectors, like pharmaceuticals and medical devices, furniture, and construction materials. This includes pooled procurement ("procurement clubs") to dramatically lower the cost of pharmaceuticals and to catalyze technology transfer, as well as “Buy Clean” and "Buy Fair” policies for sustainable procurement that upholds high labor standards.
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Our team members have developed and implemented concrete technical frameworks to use local content and other performance standards in order to achieve technology transfer. They have also implemented strategies to safeguard policy autonomy for technology transfer in the intellectual property provisions of trade and investment agreements.
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Our team members have directly shaped national development plans, national green industrial policy, including industrial targeting, and national public investment strategies for infrastructure development, industrialization, and sustainable industrial transformation.
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Our team members have advised the private sector, governments, academics, and multilateral organizations, such as the World Bank, on industrial policy-oriented analysis of value chains and productive capabilities. We partner with cutting-edge data scientists and economists to creatively apply the latest methodologies for economic and industrial strategy research, including how to target industries for industrial development.
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Our team members have co-crafted labor, environmental, and equity conditionalities for public investment in partnership with dozens civil society organizations, labor unions, and legislators.
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Our team includes legal experts with vast experience bilateral investment treaties, trade agreements, and intellectual property rights.
Community
Our global network of partners and advisors includes experts with deep technical knowledge across industries and in all aspects of industrial policy and economic development, historians and economists with deep understanding of the economics and politics of economic transformation, and many more types of essential knowledge and skills.
Building on decades work in the field of industrial strategy, we maintain a database of dozens of trusted and experienced experts, and an even broader network of partner organizations to provide the optimal expertise for specific industrial strategy challenges.
THE RIGHT EXPERTISE:
Expertise in our network includes:
1. Experts on the geoeconomics of critical minerals and strategic natural resources with decades of research and hands-on policy experience
2. Highly experienced experts on the use government procurement for industrial development, technology transfer, green transition, and macroeconomic resilience
3. Materials modelers and biophysical and ecological economists with applied experience in the design of sustainable food and heavy industry policy and prospective development research
4. Specialists on methodologies for industrial targeting, input-output, and green value chain analysis for industrial policy
5. Legal experts specializing in bilateral investment treaties, trade agreements, and intellectual property rights
6. Experts on renewable energy transition strategies
7. Experts on sustainable construction materials, heavy industry decarbonization. and sustainable transportation
Much more ...
Research & Knowledge Clearinghouse
We develop actionable research to inform industrial strategy and maintain a knowledge clearinghouse that features useful (old and new) research, technical documents, and case studies from across the globe. We also partner with cutting-edge data science and innovation experts to provide the latest methodologies for the analysis of global value chains, production networks, and productive capabilities.
ACTIONABLE RESEARCH:
I3T develops on-demand and independent actionable research in service industrial strategies. In partnership with cutting-edge data science and innovation experts, we implement the latest methodologies for the analysis of global value chains, production networks, and productive capabilities in order to identify opportunities for technological upgrading and industrial development.
LESSONS AND TEMPLATES:
Industrial strategies have a long history around the globe. Practitioners and researchers have gleaned many useful lessons from those experiences. Building on our long-running research experience and partnerships in the industrial policy space, our team distills those lessons into case studies, templates, technical documents, and policy guidances, featuring the most useful old and new research on industrial strategy.