Costed Action Plan for SADC Industrialization Strategy and Roadmap (iv) Share the private sector’s perspectives on long-term industrialization and how to address the challenges and seize on emerging opportunities. (v) Act as a vehicle to initiate/interrogate/interface efforts to create regional value chains and links with global value chains. (vi) Facilitate (technically/financially) the implementation of the Industrialization Strategy and build a constituency for it across the private sector bodies. (c) Centres of Excellence The participating Centres of Excellence are representatives of those with links to industrial development and related science, technology, socio-economic research and innovation. They should be seized by the needs of industrialization and competitiveness challenges of the Twenty-First Century and are capable of capturing and using frontier knowledge and fostering collaboration between industry and academia and act as magnets for excellent researchers and developers. Within the Forum they shall: (i) Help widen the impact of the Centres on private sector and innovation and enhance productivity. (ii) Adopt a mission geared towards fostering bilateral science and technology cooperation within SADC and with other regions, including the European Union and ASEAN countries around large scale research infrastructure. (iii) Leverage knowledge to speed up the industrialization process. 65