By Urama Kevin Chika, Executive Director, ATPS In response to the post titled “Opening up Research Funding at ATPS” by Adrian Ely, I would like to expound on the Network’s…
ATPS PROMOTES FULL STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION IN THE RESEARCH FUNDING PROCESS
OPENING UP RESEARCH FUNDING AT ATPS
By Adrian Ely The African Technology Policy Studies (ATPS) network is made up of academics, policy-makers private sector and civil society. On the third day of their annual conference on…
MANIFESTO: REPORT FROM NIGERIA ROUND TABLE
Adrian Ely writes: “I heard some inspiring talks at the second day of the ATPS conference, where 157 delegates from 32 countries (including the 23 in which ATPS has national…
MANIFESTO ON TOUR: KENYA
We’re off to Nairobi for two Manifesto events. The first is a day-long Roundtable, hosted by ACTS, on Friday. For the second, we’ll be joining the 4th TWAS-ROSSA Young Scientists’…
REBOOTING DEVELOPMENT: PROF CALESTOUS JUMA
“Rebooting development: Innovation policy in the age of technological abundance” was the title of the 13th Marie Jahoda Annual Lecture. It was hosted by SPRU on 7 October 2009. Calestous’…
Symposium ’09: final session – Responses from the international community, government, media, civil society and the private sector
The last session, chaired by Melissa Leach, invited various participants to feed back on the preceding discussions.
Symposium ’09: Session 3 – What opportunities are presented by the global redistribution of innovative activity?
This session was chaired by Martin Bell and discussed the opportunities and challenges resulting from the emergence of new centres of science and innovation.
STEPS SYMPOSIUM: REDISTRIBUTING INNOVATION
By Julian Pineres Ramirez, PhD student, CENTRIM, Brighton University “What opportunities are presented by the global redistribution of innovative activity?” was the title of Session 3. The questions of how…
STEPS SYMPOSIUM: REALITY CHECK
By Katharina Welle, STEPS Centre PhD student The New Manifesto, presented by Adrian Ely on day one of the STEPS Centre Symposium, argues for three crucial shifts in thinking about…
STEPS SYMPOSIUM: MULTIMEDIA
By Julia Day We had a great Symposium last week, with an engaged audience who were game enough to participate in some video interviews, answering one question: “If you had…