I have contributed to the chapters on the agri-food industry and on the ICTs sector in the UNCTAD recently published Uganda STI Policy Review.
The full report can be downloaded here.
With Rasmus Lema and Carlo Pietrobelli I have contributed to the Handbook on Global Value Chains with a chapter presenting a new conceptual framework for investigating how GVCs and ISs jointly contribute to innovation in developing countries. It can be downloaded here.
On May 2019 I presented a paper on the co-evolution of GVCs and Innovation Systems at the ICC -Tsinghua University Conference held in Beijing. I also presented the same paper at SASE Conference at the New School in New York in June.
Here is my presentation.
New post on the LSE Blog on Global Investments and Local Development with Padmashree Gehl Sampath and Rasmus Lema.
In this article co-authored with Rasmus Lema and Padmashree Sampath, we investigate how combining global value chain and innovation system approaches can help to foster an understanding of the possible trajectories that learning and innovation may take in developing countries.
Free download here
On 28th February I gave a lecture in the course organised by UNU-Merit in Lima on The design and evaluation of innovation policy.
Here it is the presentation.
My interview about Global Value Chains and Innovations Systems in a recent Globelics video.
On 18th December 2015 I participated in the Panel Discussion: Enhancing producers competitiveness in International Food Value Chains
On May 22nd I participated in the workshop ‘Interactive learning in Global value chains and National innovation systems – Capacity building to escape the poverty and the middle income traps’. Participants from all regional chapters of Globelics attended the meeting.
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