UNU Update: INTECH lecture

	UNU Update
	The newsletter of United Nations University and its network of research and training centres and programmes
		Issue 19: September 2002

Nathan Rosenberg

Innovation in Asia topic for
INTECH annual lecture

Nathan Rosenberg, Professor of Public Policy at Stanford University and one of the world's foremost experts on the causes and consequences of technological change, will deliver this year's UNU Institute for New Technologies Amilcar Herrera Lecture.

Prof. Rosenberg will speak on Sources of Innovation in Developing Economies: Reflections on the Asian Experience, examining the experiences of South Korea, Taiwan and India to identify key determinants of the successful transfer of industrial technologies.

He will focus on the feedback mechanisms flowing back to a company from market forces that shaped the nature of the company's learning experiences and its acquisition of higher technical competencies. The new opportunities resulting from ongoing changes in the international division of labour will also be explored.

The UNU/INTECH annual public lecture series was named in honour of the late Prof. Amilcar Herrera, a scientist who believed that scientific development was essential for the kinds of technological innovation needed for social change in developing countries. He also maintained that these changes could only be achieved if science and technology policy was in line with other public policies.

Nathan Rosenberg's research activities have primarily dealt with the economics of technological change, examining the diversity of the forces generating technological change across industrial boundary lines, as well as the mutual
influences between scientific research and technological innovation. His publications have addressed both the questions of the determinants and the consequences of technological change.

A foremost contributor to the theory of innovation and a noted economic historian, Prof. Rosenberg has significantly altered the way we understand the process of innovation and has had a powerful impact on policy thinking in the U.S., Europe and the developing world.

The second annual Amilcar Herrera Public Lecture will begin at 4 p.m. September 26 in Conference Room 1 at UNU/INTECH, Keizer Karelplein 19, 6211 TC Maastricht, The Netherlands. The event is open to academics, researchers and others interested in science, technology and development.

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