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