A CO-REACH international project seminar was held together with Remnin University of China on August 23-24, in Suzhou. The seminar was attended by 12 international scholars, who also taught at the adjoining summer school (see below). The project is part of the twinning agreement between the International College of Renmin University and UNU-MERIT. During the visit in Suzhou, Can Huang and Pierre Mohnen therefore also met with the Deans of International College of Renmin University to discuss further steps of twinning with the College as well as Renmin University.
On 23-26 June, Bilal Mirza presented a paper on energy poverty at a conference organized by the Ontario International Development Agency (OIDA) and Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The paper, co-authored with Eddy Szirmai, proposes a novel indicator to measure wide-spread energy poverty. The Energy Poverty Index (EPI) focuses not only on energy expenses, but also on household inconveniences arising while accessing different energy sources, including firewood, animal and plant waste, kerosene and LPG.
In Memoriam: Chris Freeman (1921-2010) Posted: 2010-08-18 | Updated: 2010-09-01
Chris Freeman
On Monday, August 16th 2010 passed away Chris Freeman, one of the founding fathers of MERIT, and a mentor to many of MERIT’s researchers in Maastricht in the 80’s and 90’s. Chris Freeman was the intellectual anchorage behind the creation of MERIT in 1988 and continued to be heavily involved in MERIT research for at least another 15 years. Click the link below to read the In Memoriam as well as personal reflections by UNU-MERIT director Luc Soete, a close personal friend of Chris Freeman with whom he set up MERIT and Bart Verspagen, who was a PhD student at the time Chris Freeman was with MERIT.
ON 25-26 August UNU-MERIT organised a summerschool at the International College of Renmin University of China in Suzhou. 11 students from China attended the shool.
Scholars from UNU-MERIT included Can Huang, Pierre Mohnen, Jacques Mairesse, visiting scholar Mingqian Zhang and former visitor Yilin Wu.
Learning about Innovation and the Use of Indicators Posted: 2010-09-01
The UNU-MERIT Project "Research and Training Support to Build African Capacity in Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators", managed by Fred Gault, is holding a three day workshop in Pretoria, South Africa on September 7,8 and 9. The workshop is a joint undertaking with the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI) of the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT).
The workshop brings together groups doing case studies of innovation activities in South Africa and Mozambique, graduate students supported by IDRC to do empirical work related to innovation as part of their thesis research and a group of international lectures. The objective is to build capacity and a network related to empirical research on innovation in Africa.
The workshop is supported Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Presentation on Eco-patents Commons Posted: 2010-09-01
Bronwyn Hall
On 12th June, Bronwyn Hall gave a presentation on a new paper (joint with Christian Helmers, Oxford University) on the use of eco-patents commons, at a Sciences Po Conference on alternative forms of IP protection. Bronwyn found that the pledged eco-patents common patents appear to be effective in that they are more valuable and more highly used than similar patents in the same IPC classes that are not pledged.
Workshop on `The Economics of Knowledge and Innovation’ / Atelier de formation en `Economie de la Connaissance et de l’Innovation’ abstract more information
Sep 27
Design and Evaluation of Innovation Policy in a Developing Country Context (DEIP) abstract more information
Innovation Strategies for a Global Economy Posted: 2010-09-01
Fred Gault’s book on Innovation Strategies for a Global Economy is now available for purchasing.
Full title: Innovation Strategies for a Global Economy: Development, Implementation, Measurement and Management
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Innovation provides a path to sustainable growth but a strategy for innovation in a global economy is no longer national. Countries must attract people and investment from abroad and participate in world markets and institutions. This book starts with the language and system framework used to discuss innovation, and the statistical indicators needed to describe the activity. It then looks at innovation strategies, their components and their management before proposing directions for new work in developed and developing countries.
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