9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure – SDG Report
Icon for SDG Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
BUILD RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE, PROMOTE INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIALIZATION AND FOSTER INNOVATION.

Inclusive and sustainable industrialization, together with innovation and infrastructure, can unleash dynamic and competitive economic forces that generate employment and income. They play a key role in introducing and promoting new technologies, facilitating international trade and enabling the efficient use of resources.

There is a need to scale up investment in scientific research and innovation.

Innovation and technological progress, in-line with the other SDGs, are key to finding lasting solutions to both economic and environmental challenges. Learn more

Icon for SDG Target 9.1

Target 9.1: Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all.

How relevant is this target for your project, research activity or business?
Icon for SDG Target 9.2

Target 9.2: Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and, by 2030, significantly raise industry’s share of employment and gross domestic product, and double its share in least developed countries.

How relevant is this target for your project, research activity or business?
Icon for SDG Target 9.3

Target 9.3: Increase the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises, in particular in developing countries, to financial services, including affordable credit, and their integration into value chains and markets.

How relevant is this target for your project, research activity or business?
Icon for SDG Target 9.4

Target 9.4: Upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities.

How relevant is this target for your project, research activity or business?
Icon for SDG Target 9.5

Target 9.5: Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, in particular developing countries, including, encouraging innovation and substantially increasing the number of research and development workers per 1 million people and public and private research and development spending.

How relevant is this target for your project, research activity or business?
Icon for SDG Target 9.A

Target 9.A: Facilitate sustainable and resilient infrastructure development in developing countries through enhanced financial, technological and technical support to African countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States.

How relevant is this target for your project, research activity or business?
Icon for SDG Target 9.B

Target 9.B: Support domestic technology development, research and innovation in developing countries, including by ensuring a conducive policy environment for, inter alia, industrial diversification and value addition to commodities.

How relevant is this target for your project, research activity or business?