Innovation Skills are vital, as the basic input to the diverse national innovation system. The summit focuses diagnosing the efforts and successes in diffusing the right skills including competence based curriculum, problem based approaches, design thinking, digital skills, innovation leadership, talent development, futuristics skills, the future of work and talent mobility. In addition, the summit explores mechanisms to breaking silos and building bridges between academia and private sector, Government, academia and informal sector.

This track focuses on strengthening best practices and systems for good research and commercialisation, ranging from national guidelines, institutions systems and programs as well as individual capacities and resources. Research to Commercialisation requires a wide range of skills and partnerships. The summit attempts to bring the players together and expose the various linkages that make commercialisation thrive. This is part of the ST&I, research as well as higher education sectors reform trajectory to exploit research and intangible assets as a substantive alternative source of revenue.

This track demonstrates the KIW's team appreciation that, just as it is with private sector, innovation can be a major booster for productivity, improvements and cost savings in public sector. Innovating in public sector is seen as a critical element of economy-wide innovation performance. The summit will demonstrate examples of opportunities to develop stronger innovation policies and strategies relating to the public sector, the institutional conditions necessary for generating innovations and cases of innovations that are thriving in the sector.