A VISION FOR ESTABLISHING THE GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR SHARING KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE IN MANAGEMENT OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION, QUALITY AND CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT BUSINESS

To earn competitive edge as well as for ensuring the sustainable market access in the global trade regime under WTO, due to three major Agreements: TBT, SPS and TRIPS, the economies as well as the industries are facing severe challenges to have access to the technical services from science, technology, innovation, quality and conformity assessment infrastructure of any economies. The key institutions responsible for providing these services are: national-regional-international standards bodies, technical regulation organizations, market surveillance operators, metrology organizations, testing-calibration service providers, certification-inspection bodies, quality and environmental management system certifiers, accreditation bodies, scientific innovation and R&D organizations. These organizations both in public and private are to be operated under certain legal and regulatory regime to cater the needs of the economy as well as to ensure the level play ground for all in the market. Historically in may cases, especially within the technical organizations operating under public sector have been mandated by laws to perform a number of competing functions: both technical as well as regulatory policing, leaving these bodies with a number potential conflict of interests. In most cases, these are the origins of non-transparency and corruption as such leading these organizations to be ultimately dysfunctional ones facing constraints in delivering the reliable and acceptable services to the clients. These have been identified as the major challenges especially in the developing economies not having sufficient and efficient capacity, competency and competitiveness to take part to the global trade effectively. This technical infrastructure are absolutely critical for sustainable industrial-economic growth facilitating trade, protecting the consumer’s rights and environment, ensuring the quality and safety of the products, meeting the customers as well as compliance requirements and underpinning scientific-innovation technological and industrial advancement.