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- Professional development and capacity building
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- Promotion of best practice
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- Increasing awareness of research and innovation issues in academic and public fora
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- Advocacy of appropriate national and institutional policy in support of research and innovation and participation in the development and testing of policy
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- Advancement of science, technology and innovation, including addressing the asymmetries in access to, and diffusion of, knowledge between 'North and 'South'
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- The advancement of a code of professional standards through a framework of values and principles which members are expected to follow
- The enhancement of the profile of the profession
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