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Research & policy analysis

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UNU-MERIT researchers ranked among top international economists
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UNU-MERIT director, Luc Soete and three professorial fellows - John Hagedoorn, Enrico Perotti and Robin Cowan - are ranked among the top Dutch-based international economists in an annual ranking published by Economisch Statistische Berichten (ESB), a Dutch economic journal. Professors Soete and Hagedoorn are ranked 11th and 12th respectively in international citations for the period 1999-2003. Professors Perotti (3rd) and Cowan (6th) are among the top performers in a separate "citatie-tipparade" category, which lists the best newcomers based on citations in the final year of the measurement period (2003-only). The 2005 rankings were published in the 7 April 2006 edition of the journal

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	Profile Luc Soete
	Profile John Hagedoorn
	Profile Enrico Perotti
	Profile Robin Cowan
	ESB

New UNU-MERIT Podcasts
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In our continuing series focusing on research and policy analysis at UNU-MERIT, Anthony Arundel, programme leader Knowledge and Industrial Dynamics analyses some conceptual challenges that underlie the measurement of knowledge flows and innovation in a changing global context, and discusses how the Institute's research programme is breaking new ground in dealing with these problems.

Tim Hubbard, Head of Human Genome Analysis at The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK , was one of the speakers at the UNU-MERIT research symposium on "Open Source" and "Open Medicine" at UN Headquarters, New York , on 13 April 2006 . He talks to Philipp Schmidt about a bold new proposal being discussed at the World Health Organization to promote research into neglected diseases and enhance access to medicines for the world's poorest populations.

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	Interview with Anthony Arundel
	Interview with Tim Hubbard

Gender and Open Source Study completed
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An ethnographic study to explain why women are so grossly underrepresented in Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) Communities has been completed. The study is part of a broader EU-funded project on FLOSS Policy Support coordinated by UNU-MERIT. The two project reports: Gender: Integrated Report of Findings , and Gender: Policy Recommendations are available at the FLOSSPols Website.

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	Flosspols

Face of the month

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Successful inaugural seminar for Dutch PhD network
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More than 50 PhD students in the Netherlands attended the first Development Economics PhD seminar at Maastricht University . The seminar was convened by Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, UNU-MERIT and Amsterdam Institute for International Development. For more information on upcoming seminars and other activities of the network, please send an email to Jessica Hagen

Forthcoming PhD defence
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Geoffrey Gachino has completed his PhD research on the topic Foreign Direct Investment, Spillovers and Innovation: The Case of the Kenyan Manufacturing Industry and will defend his PhD thesis at the University of Maastricht on Friday 19 May. He is the 10 th PhD candidate to graduate from the joint UNU-MERIT/University of Maastricht PhD programme in the Economics and Policy Studies of Economic Change.

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	Thesis summary

Events & networking

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New book
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Learning to Compete in African Industry: Institutions and Technology in Development, by Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka , senior researcher, UNU-MERIT (Ashgate, April 2006)

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	Ordering information