This analysis indicates that these keywords are appropriate to identify additional development activities supporting STI, which had not already have been identified in the first or second stages. This approach also captures development finance providers’ various preferences to support STI. For example, some providers may prefer to support research for which there is no sector code, e.g. infectious diseases. Other providers may prefer core funding to certain institutions, which have core STI mandates, but which may or may not be present on the DAC list of channels of delivery.