International Development Research Centre2025-05-202025-05-201993-02International Development Research Centre. (1993). Program on Innovation Systems Management (PRISM): A Strategy for Improving Research Effectiveness.http://192.9.200.215:4000/handle/123456789/771PRISM, situated within IDRC’s Corporate Affairs and Initiatives Division, is designed to enhance the utilization of research by adopting an innovation systems approach. It builds on the Research Utilization Program and addresses challenges in science and technology (S&T) for socio-economic development. PRISM emphasizes capacity building, institutional strengthening, and responsiveness to Agenda 21 priorities. Its goal is to ensure research findings translate into sustainable and practical benefits for developing countries.Research supported by PRISM seeks to develop strategies for enhancing effectiveness by attending to the producer-user linkage. PRISM will fill an important role in strengthening the ultimate value of development research supported by the Centre by generating knowledge about the processes of innovation development, effectiveness and application-domains still relatively unexplored by the Centre's more traditional divisions. The problems faced by the developing countries in engaging as equal partners in these processes are both profound and urgent. Their solution requires explicit recognition that knowledge, production and use occurs at all points in the system, that attention to capacity building and implementation of change is needed throughout, and that effective and sustainable use of science and technology involves much more than access to machines and information.enPRISM (Program on Innovation Systems Management)Research UtilizationScience and Technology (S&T)Sustainable DevelopmentAgenda 21Working Paper