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Inaugural UNU-MERIT Charles Cooper Public Lecture held
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| Professor Luc Soete opening
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The first annual public lecture in honour of Professor Charles Cooper, the founding director of United Nations University - Institute for New Technologies (now UNU-MERIT), took place on Friday 19 January in Maastricht. Given by Professor Raphie Kaplinsky (Open University/Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University), the lecture addressed: "The Challenge of the Asian Drivers: From Industrial to Innovation Policy." The lecture was preceeded by the unveiling of the
memorial Charles M Cooper plaque at the UNU-MERIT Library.
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European Commission study: FLOSS is key for ICT competitiveness
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| FLOSS Penguin |
The European Commission has released a study about the economic impact of Free/Libre or Open Source Software (FLOSS) on the European ICT sector. It was prepared by a consortium of research institutions led by UNU-MERIT's Rishab Aiyer Ghosh. Looking at the impact of FLOSS on European competitiveness in ICTs, the study finds that such software is of great importance to the digital industry in Europe and several other parts of the world. It has already reached considerable market share in several fields, including web servers and operating systems. A large share of public and private sector organisations use at least some FLOSS.
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First Latin American DEIP Workshop a success
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| Two of the lecturers at the Buenos Aires DEIP: Claire Nauwelaers and Jorge Katz |
Eighty seven senior researchers and policymakers drawn from 14 countries in the region attended the UNU-MERIT/RICYT/UNQ training workshop: “Design and Evaluation of Innovation Policy in Latin America. Indicators of Progress,” held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 4-7 December 2006.
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UNU-MERIT bids farewell to long-serving researcher
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| Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka |
Professor Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka leaves UNU-MERIT this month to take up a new position as Director, Monitoring and Research Division, at UN-HABITAT in Nairobi. A Nigerian national, Prof. Oyeyinka joined the former UNU-INTECH in 2001, where he coordinated several major research and capacity building programmes focusing on the strengthening of innovation systems in a developing country context.
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European Commission publishes study report
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"Strategic Evaluation on Innovation and the knowledge based economy in relation to the Structural and Cohesion Funds, for the programming period 2007-2013," a study report prepared by a consortium of European research institutes has been published.
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UNU-MERIT researchers contribute to new European policy initiative
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UNU-MERIT is a key contributor to PRO INNO Europe, an innovation policy initiative that intends to become the focal point of innovation policy analysis and development throughout Europe. Hugo Hollanders presented a paper titled: Measuring Innovation Performance: Lessons from the European Innovation Scoreboard, at the launch in Copenhagen.
On 14 December 2006, the PRO INNO Europe initiative was formally launched at a conference in Copenhagen. The initiative combines analysis and benchmarking of national and regional innovation policy performance with support for cooperation of national and regional innovation programmes and incentives for innovation agencies and other innovation stakeholders to implement joint actions.
Hugo Hollanders presented UNU-MERIT’s involvement in INNO-Metrics. UNU-MERIT is one of the key participants in the INNO-Metrics initiative, which analyses and benchmarks innovation performance in Europe, with a view to identifying innovation strengths and weaknesses at European and national level and measuring progress over time.
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Two new post–doc positions
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UNU-MERIT seeks two researchers for a new project that is exploring ways of strengthening innovation capacity within the livestock sector in India and Nigeria. |
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UNU-MERIT Face of the Month: Radhika Bhuyan
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| Radhika Bhuyan |
In this month’s opinion piece, Radhika Bhuyan questions whether the passing of a ‘Right to Information’ Act will provide answers to the only questions that most Indian citizens are interested in: why a pension fund has not been paid, a village hospital has not been built, there are no teachers in schools, and why food subsidies do not reach the poor.
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Maastricht-based Institutes launch joint PhD Seminar Series
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UNU-MERIT and the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance at Maastricht University have launched a joint PhD seminar series, which provides an opportunity for PhD students to present their work to the academic community in Maastricht. Interested PhD candidates that are working on economic and socio-cultural issues related to development economics, technological change and governance are invited to submit paper proposals to Semih Akcomak, or Bianca Buligescu. |
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Communication and Cooperation in the Virtual Workplace (Edward Elgar)
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Gaby Sadowski-Rasters, Geert Duysters and Bert M. Sadowski
This innovative book explores the structure, growth and effectiveness of virtual communities in computer-mediated environments. In spite of initial enthusiasm, much uncertainty remains about the prospects of virtual teams and the technology that supports their collaboration. The book seeks to confront these issues and offers a unique insight into the realities of virtual working.
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Enhancing Agricultural Innovation: How to Go Beyond the Strengthening of Research Systems
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The World Bank
This Economic and Sector Work paper was prepared by Andy Hall (UNU-MERIT), Willem Janssen, Eija Pehu and Riikka Rajalahti (World Bank). It presents the results of a research project to assess the usefulness of the innovation systems concept in guiding investments to support knowledge-intensive, sustainable agriculture development for the Bank’s client countries and their collaborators.
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