Dr. Bertha Vallejo is a science and technology policy analyst focusing on innovation studies and the key role that  Industry 4.0 technological changes promoted in the North are having on the development pathways of local economies in the South.

She is an associated researcher at the UNU-MERIT in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and a research fellow at the Innovation for Sustainable Development Network (inno4sd.net).  Since early 2020 Dr. Vallejo joined the DST/NRF/Newton Fund Trilateral Research Chair in Transformative Innovation, the 4th Industrial Revolution and Sustainable Development at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa.  She is an early-career scholar under Queen Elizabeth Scholars –Open African Innovation Research network (Open AIR) till March 2021. 

For more than 15 years, Dr. Vallejo has coordinated multiple capacity development projects in the Horn of Africa and Great Lakes Region.  These projects shed light on the much-missed connection between capacity development results and the changes needed at the organizational, social, and individual levels.

	Selected publications by Bertha Vallejo
Articles (journal, professional, popular)
Wehn, Ute, Bertha Vallejo, Chris Seijger, Mamohloding Tlhagale, Natacha Amorsi, Seyram Kossi Sossou, Bettina Genthe & Jean Marie Kileshye Onema, 2020, Strengthening the knowledge base to face the impacts of climate change on water resources in Africa: A social innovation perspective, Environmental Science & Policy(Online), DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.09.026, More information
Vallejo, Bertha, Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Nicholas Ozor & Maurice Bolo, 2019, Open Innovation and Innovation Intermediaries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Sustainability, 11(2): 392-, DOI: 10.3390/su11020392, More information
Gehl Sampath, Padmashree & Bertha Vallejo, 2018, Trade, Global Value and Upgrading: What, When and How?, The European Journal of Development Research, DOI: 10.1057/s41287-018-0148-1, More information
Aga, Deribe Assefa, Niels Noorderhaven & Bertha Vallejo, 2017, Project Beneficiary Participation and Behavioral Intentions Promoting Project Sustainability: The Mediating Role of Psychological Ownership, Development Policy Review, DOI: 10.1111/dpr.12241, More information
Aga, D.A., N. Noorderhaven & Bertha Vallejo, 2016, Transformational leadership and project success: The mediating role of team-building, International Journal of Project Management, 34(5): 806-818, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2016.02.012, More information
Vallejo, Bertha & Ute Wehn, 2016, Capacity Development Evaluation: The Challenge of the Results Agenda and Measuring Return on Investment in the Global South, World Development, 79: 1-13, DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.10.044, More information
Tielman, K., P. den Brok, S. Bolhuis & Bertha Vallejo, 2012, Collaborative learning in multicultural classrooms: A case study of Dutch senior secondary vocational education, Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 64(1): 103-118, More information
Vallejo, Bertha, 2002, Income Convergence and the Role of International Trade. Mexico as Case Study, Journal of International Political Economy,, 9: 39-45
Book chapters
Vallejo, Bertha, 2017, Trayectorias tecnologicas existentes y emergentes hacia el 2020. El caso de la industria automotriz global, in: Martinez Martinez, Adriana Carrillo, Jorge, Innovación, redes de colaboración y sostenibilidad: Experiencias regionals y tendencias internacionales de la industria automotriz, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico ENES Leon UNAM-Colson-CIAD-AM, Mexico
UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Gehl Sampath, Padmashree & Bertha Vallejo, 2018, Global Value Chains and Upgrading: What, When and How?, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2018-016
Vallejo, Bertha, 2015, The emergence of parallel trajectories in the automobile industry: Environmental issues and the creation of new markets, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2015-037
External working papers
Vallejo, Bertha, 2005, Firms’ Learning Capabilities under a New Economic Environment. A case study for the Mexican Auto Parts Sector, UNU-INTECH Discussion Paper Series., More information
Theses
Vallejo, Bertha, 2010, Learning and Innovation Under Changing Market Conditions: The Auto Parts Industry in Mexico, PhD Thesis Maastricht University. Prom.: Prof. Dr. Pierre Mohnen and Prof. Dr. Lynn Mytelka, More information
Other (editorship, media appearance, keynote, etc.)
Phillips, F., Bertha Vallejo & P. Mhondo, 2005, A Taxonomy of Technological-Based Economic Development Initiatives, Maastricht School of Management