Policy Partnership on Science, Technology and Innovation

APEC’s Policy Partnership for Science, Technology and Innovation (PPSTI) envisions that the APEC region would achieve innovative economic growth by 2025. For more information, read the PPSTI Strategic Plan 2016–2025.

The PPSTI’s mission is to “support the development of science and technology cooperation as well as effective science, technology, and innovation policy recommendations in APEC through collaboration between government, academia, private sector and other APEC fora.”

Formerly known as the Industrial Science and Technology Working Group (ISTWG), the partnership was formed in 2012, when APEC agreed to broaden the group’s mandate to include innovation policy development and to intensify cooperation among governments, businesses and academia. When the ISTWG was renamed to the PPSTI, a new terms of reference outlining the PPSTI’s mandate and goals was endorsed.

Last page update: December 2024

Contacts

Theme

Building on the APEC 2024 theme “Empower. Include. Grow.”, the PPSTI theme for the year is “Empowering Innovation and Digitalization for Inclusive, Sustainable, and Resilient Economic Growth”, with overarching priorities of: 

a. Addressing challenges and barriers for those with untapped economic potential to participate in the science, technology, innovation, and digital ecosystems, as appropriate, to advance enabling environments for a sustainable and inclusive technological future; and

b. Exploring emerging technologies and more broadly STI for the role that they play in supporting sustainable resilience and recovery solutions.

Meetings

In 2024, PPSTI members met twice in Lima, Peru. The 23rd PPSTI meeting was held on 28-29 February. Members convened for the 24th PPSTI meeting on 19-20 August.

Projects

PPSTI has 24 projects approved in-principle by the Budget Management Committee from two project sessions in 2024. Please visit the APEC project database for more details.