2003: A Focus on Partnership Building

UNU-INTECH made substantial progress in 2003 towards its objective of contributing to informed decision making on innovation and technology issues in developing countries.
Following requests from a number of governments and research institutions, UNU-INTECH has entered into formal agreements with new partner institutions to undertake collaborative research and capacity building activities on technology innovation issues for developing countries. More ...

Photo: Participants at a STIP training workshop held in Tehran, Iran in August 2003.

8 research projects completed
During the course of the year, eight research and policy analysis projects in the three thematic areas were completed . Read more ...

Academic exchange
The monthly research seminars continued to bring scholars from around the world to share their work on innovation in science and technology. Some of the papers presented at the seminars can be downloaded here .

The United Nations University at the WSIS
The big event that was the Geneva Phase of the WSIS is now over - at least until the next phase to be held in Tunis in 2005. In this Update we bring you an overview of UNU organised events at the Summit as well as some general highlights of the Geneva meeting (PDF 193 KB) .

Research in Focus

Coping with Globalisation: An analysis of innovation capability in Brazilian telecommunications equipment industry
UNU-INTECH Researcher, Sunil Mani summarises the findings of a recently completed study of Brazil's telecommunications sector. The case study is part of a larger comparative research project looking into telecom innovation issues in Brazil, India, Korea and China.
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A man makes a phone call at one of the colourful public telephones available throughout the country. Photo: ANATEL Brazil

Training and capacity Building

Short Term Training Programme to start in 2004
In addition to the existing PhD and PhD Internship Programmes, UNU-INTECH provides tailor-made and demand driven training activities for policy makers in developing countries, within the existing research framework. To strengthen these activities the Institute will launch a new training programme, Design and Evaluation of Innovation Policy in Developing Countries (DEIP) in 2004. The course targets middle level officials of Ministries of Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and other technology supporting institutions and agencies based in developing countries. More information on the programme will be available shortly on the website.

PhD training: Four new students joined the programme in 2003. This brings the total number of students enrolled on the programme to 23, drawn from 17 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. An additional two students (from India and Liberia) attended the 3-month PhD Internship Scheme at the Institute.

REMINDER! PhD Internship Programme Deadline 15th January 2004
Time is running out for applications to participate in the next intake of Phd Interns. Details ...

New Publications

Innovation, Learning and Technological Dynamism of Developing Countries

Edited by Sunil Mani and Henny Romijn
Forthcoming June 2004, United Nations University Press, Tokyo

ICTs for Innovation: Policy Issues for Developing Countries
UNU-INTECH Technology Policy Brief Vol.2, No. 2

More Publications

Forthcoming Events

7 January, Ecis Seminar given by Padmashree Gehl Sampath at ECIS, Eindhoven

8-14 February , CTA/UNU-INTECH Training Workshop on The Agricultural Systems of Science, Technology and Innovation (ASTI) for ACP policymakers, Maastricht, The Netherlands

11 February, Workshop on "European Financial Market Integration, Investment and Technology", Warwick, UK*

18 February, Workshop on "Growth-finance and Macroeconomic Policy in the EU", Rome, Italy*

February 2004, Final Editing Workshop, Kiel, Germany*

7 April, Amilcar Herrera Lecture to be given by Professor M.S. Swaminathan

24-29 May, First Training course in Design and Evaluation of Innovation Policy in Developing Countries (DEIP) , Maastricht

July 8, Book launch, UN Headquarters, New York

* All three workshops are being organized as part of the research project "European Integration, Financial Systems and Corporate Performance", coordinated at UNU-INTECH by Dr. Anthony Bartzokas

The UNU-INTECH website is maintained by Martin Reed and Ad Notten. This bi-monthly activities update is compiled by Wangu Mwangi. For more information please send an email to info@intech.unu.edu or write to Wangu Mwangi , Editor & Communications Coordinator