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UNU-MERIT Launches Charles Cooper Memorial Lecture series
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Poster Charles Cooper Memorial Lecture Prof. Raphie Kaplinsky (Sussex University) will give the inaugural UNU-MERIT Public Lecture in honour of the founding Director of UNU-Institute for New Technologies (INTECH), Charles Cooper. Prof. Cooper, who passed away in January 2005, oversaw the expansion of the Maastricht-based Institute to become one of the largest research and training centres of United Nations University. The inaugural lecture will recognize Cooper's early contribution to the study of technological development by focusing on the challenges of industrial development and innovation in today's highly competitive global environment.

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UNU Rector Honoured
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The Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium has hosted a conference on The Millenium Development Goals: Assessment and Perspectives, in honour of the outgoing UNU Rector, Professor H. Van Ginkel. Several European-based UNU institutes: UNU-CRIS (Belgium), UNU-WIDER (Finland), UNU-EHS (Germany) and UNU-MERIT participated at the conference, from 1-3 December.

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UNU-MERIT teams up with UNU-INRA
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	Daniel Dalohoun

UNU-MERIT and the Ghana-based UNU Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA) have launched a collaborative research project to explore options for “scaling-up” agricultural innovations in West Africa. The project will examine the diffusion of the “New Rice for Africa” or NERICA rice variety in the region. UNU-MERIT PhD alumnus, Dr. Daniel Dalohoun, is carrying out the study in collaboration with the Institute’s regional hub on rural innovation policy studies (LINK) in Eastern Africa.

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UNU-MERIT to study the role of knowledge
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	Padmashree Gehl-Sampath

UNU-MERIT Researcher Dr. Padmashree Gehl-Sampath has been commissioned to undertake a study for the UNCTAD Least Developed Countries Report (LDCR 2007), which will address the role of knowledge. Dr. Gehl-Sampath will investigate whether intellectual property rights have stimulated innovation by domestic processing firms in Bangladesh. The study will collect firm-level data on the agro-processing, and textile and garments sectors.

Open Source Workshop: What if the public sector were to set its software free?
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"The days of proprietary solutions are over," was the reaction of an IBM representative attending the recent UNU-MERIT, EUROCITIES and Unisys workshop on open source software in the public sector.

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Innovation Africa Symposium
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UNU-MERIT participated at the international symposium on agricultural innovation systems in Uganda from 20-23 November 2006. PhD researcher Ekin Keskin presented a paper on Innovation Response Capacity for Livestock Sector in Ethiopia.

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3rd International Conference on Innovation and Management
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UNU-MERIT was one of the organizers of the 3rd International Conference on Innovation and Management (IM-2006) held from 2-3 December at the Wuhan University of Technology in China.

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UNU-MERIT Face of the Month
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	Rasheed Sulaiman

For this month’s profile we asked Dr. Rasheed Sulaiman, Director of the Centre for Research on innovation and Science Policy (CRISP) in India to share some insights on the interface between academic research and the day to day realities of development work. His organization hosts UNU-MERIT’s regional network on Rural Innovation Policy Studies (LINK) in South Asia.

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Opinion: elections in Congo
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Following a relatively free election, can the Democratic Republic of Congo finally live up to its name? Alexis Habiyaremye draws some lessons from the country’s troubled history.

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Seven PhD defences in 2006
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2006 has been a record graduation year for UNU-MERIT’s PhD Programme in the Economics and Policy Studies of Technical Change. The final three defences this year take place on 14th December.

Dynamics of New Techonology Diffusion: A Study of the Indian Automotive Industry by Mamata Parhi

Social Structures and the Innovation Process: Their Role in the Demand of Firms and Consumers by Andreas Reinstaller

Essays on Social Learning and Innovation by Bulat Sanditov

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