there have also been a number of important developments in conceptual and policy approaches to technology and innovation some of these reflecting the nature of frontier technologies particularly the opportunities for networking and collaboration that digital technologies and platforms afford a key part of building on the foundations of sti policy outlined in chapter iii is to apply these new concepts effectively and to make optimal use of new opportunities and emerging policy approaches it begins in section a with a discussion of the potential and limitations of technological leapfrogging as a means to development