Multiple times per year you and your colleagues can attend a hosted workshop to: Immerse yourself in a selected topic – such as new business creation or open innovation Exchange experiences and insights with your peers during facilitated discussion sessions Visit a leading company in Europe and learn new ways to tackle innovation challenges Workshops [...] Go to Source Similar...

Almost two months ago, infoDev launched an online challenge to aid digital job creation in developing countries. The challenge, called m2Work (after mobile microwork), asks participants to identify real-world problems that could be addressed by millions of underprivileged people equipped with Internet-connected mobile phones. ...

From SciDev There is a pressing need for Africa to bolster its pharmaceuticals industry, and that requires the right policy framework, argues Priya Shetty. Many...

From HBR The ability to acquire and develop multicultural talent is becoming a critical competitive advantage for multinational and national companies alike. As a corollary, the opportunities for those young leaders who have built in themselves multicultural capabilities are enormous. The need for multicultural leadership is great and growing. In China, both multinational...

As rates for prostate disorders spiral upwards, new research pinpoints where to grow dwindling African source of alternative medicine NAIROBI (28 March 2012)—Responding to the dwindling abundance ofPrunus africana in the wild, a tree listed as “vulnerable to extinction” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, a recent study by the World Agroforestry...

MADISON – An independent commission of scientific leaders from 13 countries today released a detailed set of recommendations to policymakers on how to achieve food security in the face of climate change. ...

Reproduced  by permission from  Innovation and the  Development Agenda: An OECD Innovation Strategy Edited by Erika Kraemer-Mbula and Watu Wamae ****   Theoretical debate on innovation systems in relation to developing countries For the most part, the innovation systems approach is based on the socioeconomic contexts of the advanced countries in which it originated....

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