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UNU-MERIT Policy Briefs Published
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Using Science and Technology Indicators to support knowledge-based economies by Robert Tijssen (Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands) and Hugo Hollanders (UNU-MERIT) is a wide-ranging exploration of how S&T indicators have been used so far in the design and monitoring of development activities. Analysing what has been learned in the relatively short history of publishing S&T indicator reports in industrialized countries, the authors draw some policy lessons that developing countries can adopt in building their own knowledge economies.
Also published recently is Foreign Direct Investment: Key Issues for Promotion Agencies, a UNU Policy Brief written by Mariana Zanatta (DPCT, University of Campinas, Brazil), Ionara Costa and Sergey Filippov (UNU-MERIT). The Brief investigates the role of Investment Promotion Agencies in attracting higher value-added and more knowledge-intensive FDI, and their impacts on the development of host countries. In a related report Sergey Filippov analyses the outcome of a recent conference that explored ways of boosting regional competitiveness in Europe. |
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Imagining an Open Source Public Sector
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An International workshop co-organized by Eurocities, Unisys and UNU-MERIT on 28 November will bring together key players from public organizations, industry and academia to debate the consequences of making public sector software more freely available. The workshop draws on a recent study of public organizations that have developed software in-house and have released (or wish to release) their software under an open source licence.
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DEIP Network continues to grow
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| DEIP participants |
Twenty senior researchers and policymakers from Vietnam, Malaysia, Ghana, Argentina, Sudan, Indonesia, Brazil, Jamaica, Pakistan, South Africa and Seychelles attended the seventh UNU-MERIT training workshop in Design and Evaluation of Innovation Policy (DEIP) in Maastricht from 23-27 October. Workshop coordinator Prof. Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka cautioned against the "wholesale importing of institutions," noting that the growing developing country network - currently numbering more than 200 DEIP alumni in 30 countries around the world - is becoming an important repository of 'best practice' in adapting innovation policies to the political, social and economic realities of developing countries.
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COMMENTARY: An Economics Nobel Peace Prize
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| Ned Phelps, winner of the2006 Nobel prize for Economics (pictured left) and Muhammad Yunus, laureate of this year's Nobel Peace prize |
In this in-depth commentary, UNU-MERIT director Luc Soete reflects on the significance of awarding the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize to the founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus. The award demonstrates a growing recognition - even at the highest echelons of global finance - that investing in the poor makes economic sense. Yunus has given the world a working model of social innovation that " ... increases the purchasing power of those segments of the world population with the greatest needs, offering the international business community the best guarantee for long term output growth."
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ERAWATCH website launched
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ERAWATCH provides information on national research policies, structures, programmes and organizations in 37 European countries. UNU-MERIT participates actively in the consortium, with Claire Nauwelaers (Belgium and Iceland), Rene Wintjes (the Netherlands) and Wendy Hansen among current members.
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FLOSSworld workshop
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The first of a new round of workshops organized by UNU-MERIT's Free/Libre/Open Source Worldwide impact study (FLOSSWorld) project has taken place in Beijing, China. Similar workshops are planned for Argentina, India and South Africa over the next few months.
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European Innovation Progress Report 2006
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The European Innovation Progress Report 2006 - the annual synthesis report of the TrendChart initiative of the European Commission's Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General - has been published.
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UNU-MERIT Face of the Month: René Kemp
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| René Kemp |
This month, we follow René Kemp's journey into the topic of transition, as he shares some of the theoretical insights he has gained from nearly two decades of work on innovation for sustainable development.
René Kemp is a senior research fellow at UNU-MERIT and is well-known for his work on eco-innovation, strategic niche management and transition management - on which he has authored numerous articles and books.
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Bringing the economy forward – innovation policy in Canada and the Netherlands
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Maastricht, November 9-10, 2006
A special seminar organized by the Association for Canadian Studies in the Netherlands in co-operation with UNU-MERIT.
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3rd PhD Defence in 2006 held
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| Free to smile… Rose Kiggundu with supervisor Prof. Lynn Mytelka |
Rose Kiggundu successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled Innovation Systems and Development: The Journey of a Beleaguered Nile Perch Fishery in Uganda, on Thursday 26 October. Her research investigated the complex learning and innovation processes that were triggered by a EU ban on East African fish exports in the late 1990s.
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Three more defences by Andreas Reinstaller, Mamata Parhi and Bulat Sanditov are scheduled for Thursday, 14 December.
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DIMETIC Summer School
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| Donatus Kosi Ayitey |
Second year PhD researcher Donatus Kosi Ayitey attended this year's training programme on Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe and was impressed by the dedication of all participants. "As an African, being part of an international network of researchers who are so focused on using their knowledge to making a difference in a world riddled with problems of various degrees of complexity gives me a renewed hope for a better future…"
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Mental health dimension in the knowledge economy underestimated.
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"Mental Capital: a preliminary study into the psychological dimension of economic development," by UNU-MERIT researcher Rifka Weehuizen highlights the social and economic consequences of not investing in mental health.
The study was commissioned by two Dutch organizations: COS (Committee of Sector Councils) and Raad voor Gezondheidsonderzoek - RGO (Council for Health Research).
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