some countries have specialised working groups or innovation networks involving industiy institutions government academia and experts in thematic areas such as skills education sectors eg manufacturing agriculture etc these groups facilitate the creation of policy roadmaps and innovation agendas which will nourish the design of strategies and policy programmes at a higher level a corollary of this increased accountability is the importance attached to policy monitoring and evaluation in good governance practices this in turn requires a sound and reliable system of sti indicators and innovation statistics