Researcher Hugo Hollanders and Prof. Jo Ritzen contributed to the Global Knowledge Index 2021, commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation. The Global Knowledge Index monitors the knowledge status of 154 countries across areas including education, innovation, and information & communications technology. Now covering 232 indicators, it is aims to help policymakers, researchers, civil society and the private sector to bri...
Knowledge 2 Knowledge Entrepreneurship, Côte d’Ivoire, is a one-year capacity-building training programme to help knowledge institutes in Côte d’Ivoire to foster an entrepreneurial mindset and skills in their students. The project hopes to achieve a lasting positive and tangible impact on job creation in a country and world region faced with high levels of youth unemployment. While Africa is the only region where the youth population will continue to grow, over one in five youth are not in emplo...
I flew into Pretoria, South Africa, in March 2020 – just when COVID-19 was becoming a fully-fledged international crisis. Working under the umbrella of the CatChain project, I aimed to access and use the confidential firm-level dataset managed by the National Treasury of South Africa (NT). This is a relatively new dataset and, in partnership with our sister institute UNU-WIDER, the NT has welcomed researchers from all around the world to do research using these South African data. My PhD project...
"The vast network of scholars that the CatChain project brings is truly a great opportunity for anyone who participates in it, as it embraces a new economic thinking through the sharing of different experiences among the partner institutions and with other external parties." Dr. VGR Chandran Govindaraju, University of Malaya, Malaysia...
Brexit will hurt both the Brits and the Continental Europeans, no matter how the negotiations unfold. Some of the divorce pains will be in terms of cold hard cash. But the worst damage could come from Brexit undercutting the very soul of the EU – i.e., the gradual increase in understanding each other across Europe. Call it, if you will, ‘the move towards a European identity’. Exchanges of staff and students, and joint research programmes, have all contributed to the building of a European identi...
A strong biotech faculty can earn more licence revenue for research institutes than anything else: just one of the findings from a new study by UNU-MERIT on the knowledge transfer activities of public research organisations (PROs), which features in the Norwegian Research Barometer 2015. This new study includes a survey conducted in the autumn of 2014 on the knowledge transfer activities of PROs in 2012 and 2013. In total, 128 knowledge transfer offices (KTOs) were surveyed and, with 97 replies ...
A new study, co-authored by UNU-MERIT, says that Europe outperforms the USA for new start-ups and licence agreements. However, Europe trails the USA for patent applications, licence income and invention disclosures. The European Knowledge Transfer Report 2013 draws on the most geographically diverse survey of knowledge transfer activities in Europe, covering more than 700 organisations in over 30 countries. Researcher Nordine Es-Sadki explains the approach, data and details below....