Publications for Science and Technology
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This book explores how policies targeting public research institutions, such as universities, contribute to the appropriation of biotechnology through national innovation systems.
Around the world, biotechnology has become a driving force for...
In the dim light of a makeshift beer hall in Phillipi township, South Africa, tourist Rob Denhom is introduced to a taste like no other. A man passes him a rusty can full of Umqomboti, a traditional bitter-sour millet beer. It is more than the...
In recent decades, there have been significant changes in the way corporate innovation is performed. They include changes in the innovation process, flexibility to outsource innovation activities, and most importantly, the location of innovation...
Globalization, the information age, and the rise of the knowledge-based economy are significantly transforming the way we acquire, disseminate, and transform knowledge. And, as a result, knowledge production is becoming closer and more directly...
What a difference seven years can make. In that time, a project to bring the Information Age to villagers in southern India has won awards and given 50 000 "information shop" users in a dozen communities high-speed wireless telephone and...
The Internet is essential to a modern university. This is particularly true for African universities, which need access to up-to-date information, as well as opportunities to collaborate with colleagues around the world and publish content online...
An Internet-based learning project in Uganda is bearing fruit — and may soon send new shoots south, to Rwanda. In March 2004, Kiddhu Makubuya, Uganda's Minister for Education and Sports, and Professor Romain Murenzi, Rwanda's Minister for Education...
An IDRC-supported peer-to-peer mentoring program helps bring science journalists in the Middle East and Africa closer to the professional mainstream.
“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it.”
— David Suzuki, Geneticist and science...
Three IDRC regional directors retired in the fall of 2010 after heading offices in Cairo, Nairobi, and Singapore. Eglal Rached, Constance Freeman, and Richard Fuchs look back at some significant moments during their careers at IDRC. Their expertise...
This paper discusses North–South partnerships to build capacity for science and technology (S&T) in Southern countries. Partnerships for S&T capacity building in Africa are not new and vary in scale, scope, and character. The contexts for...
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