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Summary - we talked about different models of accelerator and innovation, R&D Fund and LEIA. Good examples out there of accelerators. Started to see some challenges in cooperation in innovation between different countries. Maybe something in multi donor initiatives that could help manage this. Coalition could help ensure continuity of funding for particular accelerators and coordinate different donors, funders and actors in sectors. We're aware of who we're supporting in the sector. coordination between programmes is pretty important and it's not easy. Needs time and effort. Not always easy to align programmes. Not always easy to achieve objectives. Coalition provides a space for alignment.

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Coalition can have a role in fostering coordination among donors and different players for continuation of support. Different but complementary mandates. This platform could ensure connections between donors and players. On the demand led approach, we are trying to do this and it's a key success factor. Not easy to understand demand. Trying to encourage better understanding of demand and make sure it's heard by donors and international community is a key challenge. Coalition can help this.

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Continuation of support is important. Taking people from concept to commercial product is difficult. OWA experience - demand led. Offshore wind developers state their needs. As far as that could be replicated in different areas. If innovation is demand led, that makes it all the more powerful. TEA - Mini Grid Innovation Lab - mini grid developers agree opps for cost reduction and we pilot it.

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Define specific challenges: 100$ SWP, egg incubator, small ice-machine as well as challenges around business models cold storage as a service (for which products?).

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Lots of opps for tech accelerators. For EforA, we need to agree priority appliances and honing in on them wrt rationale for prioritisation. Need to hone in on focus areas that we're going to focus on in the next five years. We saw a lot of value from Tech Roadmap. Interesting to hear from CT experience and Offshore Wind Acceleartor. R&D Fund supports entrepreneurs. There's a real need in providing up front support for entrepreneurs. Need to give people fair access to develop tech. Follow on support is missing - piloting. Need to build holistic package. Important to build pathway.

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We run tech focused competitions. One for implementers. Small competition between impelementers - GIZ, SNV, Practical Action. Small budget. Either they can transition to market and scale. Different type of modernity. A very closed EnDev thing. We could do this, but it's a big machine. When you use taxpayer money, you need to show results and where it goes at an end. Objective of Challenge Fund - can be a bit more flexible. The discussion is open.

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Role to play down the line on piloting innovative business models through RBF schemes, which won't be open to households and productive users such as start ups testing tech. This is something we're trying to pilot on our side.

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Why can't countries cooperate? Cooperation on knowledge sharing, lessons learnt in country offices so we can scale up their use.

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Difficulty of countries cooperating- We have a country focus and try to duplicate lessons from one country to another. The cooperation from the beginning and doing more regional projects to tech that can filter into national policy is a good point.

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Pakistan fan intervention good example from LEIA

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Mercy Corps with Gaza Sky Geeks. Save the Children and the Response Innovation Labs.

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Reassuring that as a group we're struggling with it. Proposals for innovation or possible tech accelerators should be agnostic of market conditions - should be provocative and hook on how markets should respond. There's a place for donors like WB and FCDO to step in and improve environments. Need to focus on emerging market realities. Call for proposals should be disconnected from markets. We're going in the right direction, but need to ask more uncomfortable questions so that donors know how to ask.

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The Efficiency for Access Design Challenge is a way to source, identify and support entrepreneurs/masters students. Under the TEA programme, we're supporting recent graduates such as Innovex. This is an innovation approach rather than an acclerator

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This is something we struggle with. The only way we can support this is doing calls for proposals, but we need to justify to donors and tax payers. We can also work with incubators or innovation labs and providing them with a specific challenge...

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The Bank isn't the best institution to support these particular tech or R&D oriented interventions. To some extent, we did it through the lighting global programme a few years ago.

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LEIA has tech working groups of which refrigeration is best example. Working around technology and business model. The participants were similar but more narrow to off shore wind accelerators. They address needs and barriers. R&D Fund then identified specific barriers in the call process, received applications. In the review process, addressed specific challenges identified.

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Designed to bring forward and accelerate new tech when a new demand. Unlike open call, tech accelerators focus on specific technologies. Could be outcome based. Where no need for it. CT has had the Off Shore Wind tech accelerator over 10 years.