The project aims to enhance national innovation system capacity through updating related policies and the establishment of National Technology Transfer Offices (NTTO) linked to universities and research institutions facilitating the partnership between the research community and economic development sector, the industry and relevant governmental and nongovernment actors. This is crucial for the development of a sustained and purposeful national technology sector. This sector can help to 1) delinking economic / industrial development from imported technologies in critical sectors thus reduce technological dependency; 2) Providing economic incentives to innovators; 3) Create a new source of income for educational sector through proper licensing structures and property right structures; 4) Establish a productive R&D culture that can go beyond basic research and into industrial applications.NTTOs will help to integrate capacity of innovators, investors, entrepreneurs and researchers who are developing new technological solutions to the sustainability challenges and strategic needs of the national economy. NTTOs can help provide services such as policy advice to relevant government ministries, scouting IP value in research through working closely with researchers highlighting potential IP values in their activities and showing ways to valorise these potentials, patent drafting and protection, valuation and evaluation, and a menu of other support activities in the field of technology commercialization and industrial consulting. The NTTO must also contribute to linking and matching local capacity with multinational corporations seeking local partnerships and shared development and production values. ESCWA proposes to establish national offices in select ESCWA member states based on the requests received. The institutions coordinating the NTTO activities are expected to use their own resources (office and staff after engagement with this project) for establishing the new units.