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Promoting greater influence of women on innovation processes

The Innovation, Technology and Society (ITS) program launched the Call for Proposals on “Gender and Innovation: Understanding their Mutual Influence and Impacts”, to examine gender from a wider perspective of innovation systems in developing...

The book “The Future Control of Food” wins another prize

On June 25th, 2009, the Guild of Food Writers announced in London the winners of their much coveted Annual Awards. Egon Ronay, the most famous food critic in the United Kingdom, presented the Awards on behalf of the Guild. Geoff Tansey and Tasmin...

Scientific capacity building in Latin America, a priority for IANAS

The IANAS Workshop, “Science Funding Landscape in Central and South Americas & the Caribbean Region”, aims to increase the linkages between national science councils and regional and international granting agencies and programs, as well as to...

Results on South-South collaborations on genomics and health biotechnology will be presented in Ottawa

In a public event to be held on October 22, 2009 at IDRC, the results of an exhaustive examination of collaborations in genomics and health biotechnology among developing countries will be presented. This research aimed to understand what factors...

TERI launches the Nano Newsflash periodical

As part of the project undertaken by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) based in New Delhi, India, and supported by ITS entitled, "Capability, Governance and Nanotechnology Developments: a focus on India", TERI has launched the...

Research group awarded under the 2003-2004 RoKS Competition published “Transgenics in Debate: Edition for Young People

A team of researchers assembled by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Brazil, undertaking the project “Understanding the Social and Public Policy Dimensions of Transformative Technologies in the South: the GM Crops Case in Brazil” prepared a...

Dissemination of findings on biosafety policy decisions project in May 2008

ITS is supporting the project, “Best Practices for Assessing the Social and Economic Impacts of Transgenic Crop Varieties on Small-scale Farmers,” undertaken by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) with the aim of enabling...

ITS to Chair a Plenary Session on the 12th International Schumpeter Society Conference

From July 2-5, 2008, the Instituto de Economia, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, will host the 12th International J.A. Schumpeter Society Conference in Rio de Janeiro - The Southern Conference. This year the conference will focus on the...

Canada-Chile Workshop on Science and Technology to be hosted by IDRC

IDRC hosted the second Canada-Chile Workshop on Science and Technology held in Ottawa on May 5 and 6, 2008. This is a follow up to the successful event organized by Dr. Howard Alper, Foreign Officer of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and Visiting...

“Professional Associations and Proactive Scientists” by Sunita Sangar published by “Current Science"

Sunita Sangar, former ITS Professional Development Awardee based at the IDRC Regional Office for South Asia (SARO) in New Delhi, India, submitted a short note to the journal “Current Science”, and got it published on the February 10, 2008 issue. ...

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