18. Calls for technical and financial assistance to developing countries in their efforts to build the human and institutional capacity needed to pursue policies that strengthen their national innovation systems and that encourage investments in science and technology education not only for the generation of new technologies but also for the acquisition of the capacities to adapt science and technology developed elsewhere to local conditions;
18. 吁请向发展中国家提供技术和财政援助，协助它们努力建设必要的人力和体制能力，以推行能够加强其国家创新系统的政策，并鼓励投资于科技教育，不仅为了发明新技术，而且还为了获取能力来改造其他地方开发的科学和技术，使之适应当地条件；