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Women scientists who are nationals or permanent residents of any country in Sub-Saharan Africa have from 01 April to 30 June 2013 to apply for the 2013 L’OREAL-UNESCO Regional Fellowships. The aim of the fellowship is to assist women scientist to achieve a PhD degree in all fields of science. Ten fellowships to the value of Euro15,000 will be awarded. The [...] Go to Source ...
It is time for an educational revolution from the current education system where students are meant to sit behind desks and work!” says David Kiania. Its time to move to the digital technologies such as computers, mobile devices, digital media creation and distribution tools, videos games and social networking sites that will transform how we [...] Go to Source ...
By Elly Okutoyi iHub Research For the past six weeks, iHub Research has been conducting an ongoing Monitoring and Evaluation study on the impact of open data applications and technologies in promoting access to information . The focus for this study include technologies born out of the Code4Kenya (http://www.code4kenya.org/) pre-incubator initiative as well as those [...] Go to Source ...
The aim of this article is to assess the impact of obstacles to innovation on firms’ propensity to innovate. We show that distinguishing between firms that do not innovate because they do not intend to and firms that try but fail or give up because of insurmountable obstacles is key for properly measuring the impact of the barriers to innovation. Estimating an innovation production function on appropriately...
In this article, we propose an integrated view of the mechanisms supporting the Schumpeterian “engine of progress.” We investigate—at the industry level—the interconnections between three key relationships shaping the dynamics of innovation and economic performance: first, the ability of industries’ R&D efforts to turn out successful innovations; second, the ability of innovations to lead...
This conceptual paper addresses previous calls for the development of new theoretical frameworks to better account for the multi-agency emergency management coordination required in complex events. It uses, as a departure point, a teamwork model that includes four phases: situation assessment; plan formulation, plan execution and team learning. The thesis put forward here is that we need to move the focus of...
The Rockefeller Foundation was pleased to fund a supplement to the Stanford Social Innovation Review named Innovation for a Complex World. The supplement convened some of the world’s foremost thinkers to discuss the role of social innovation in promoting the well-being of humanity. Go to Source Similar Products: Powered by The Social Innovation Imperative: Create Winning Products, Services,...
