A paper entitled ‘What factors drive successful industrialization? Evidence and implications for developing countries‘, co-authored by UNU-MERIT’s Dr Bruno Martorano, has won the 2019 Best Paper Award from the academic journal ‘Structural Change and Economic Dynamics’. The Journal’s Editorial Board selected the paper based on several criteria, including its significance for dynamics, structural change, economic, technological institutional behaviour, methods and innovation. “Th...
I previously worked at the UN ECLAC in Santiago de Chile, in a division that has partnered with UNU-MERIT on various projects. For two years I worked under Mario Cimoli, who used to be a colleague of UNU-MERIT Director, Bart Verspagen. It was Mario who first told me about the programme. Then Alejandro Lavopa, a PhD fellow at UNU-MERIT at the time, visited ECLAC and suggested that I apply for the PhD programme. So I learned about it by word of mouth....
"For two centuries or more new technology has impacted upon employment in manufacturing and other sectors. Technological developments have led most notably to the loss of jobs that required physical capabilities. In the past, however, these new technologies have ultimately created more jobs than have been lost due to the development of new sectors and new tasks within sectors. The new wave of technology that constitutes the Fourth Industrial Revolution has the potential to be far more disruptive...
Technology can serve all three dimensions of sustainability – economic, social and environmental – at the same time. This is the main finding of UNIDO’s Industrial Development Report (IDR) 2016, to be presented at a special seminar at UNU HQ in Tokyo on 18 December 2015. Entitled “The Role of Technology and Innovation in Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development”, this flagship report was based around a series of UNU-MERIT Working Papers, co-authored by among others Dire...