International Conference on
TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT:
SCHUMPETER AND POLYMER RESEARCH
Starr Auditorium, Harvard Kennedy School
June 4–5, 2012
Conference Program
Monday, June 4, 2012
8: 00 – 9:00
9:00 – 9:05
Breakfast and Registration
Program Introduction
9:05 – 9:15
Keynote Presentation
9:15 – 9:45
Welcoming Speech
Panel 1: Innovation in Health
9:45 – 10:00
Institutional Innovation and the Fight against Neglected Tropical
Diseases
10:00 – 10:15
mHealth to Create a Better Market for the Poor
10:15 – 10:30
Entrepreneurship and Global Health: Catalyzing the Ecosystem
10:30 – 10:45
Role of Technology and Innovation in Rural Healthcare in India
10:45 – 11:15
Q&A
Panel 2: Innovation Systems and Institutions
11:15 – 11:30
The Interplay of Institutions in Development Processes
11:30 – 11:45
Government Involvement in Agricultural Innovation Systems in subSaharan Africa: A Comparative Look at Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, and
South Africa
Fostering Innovation through Strengthening Institutional Capabilities in
an Emergent Regional Innovation System
11:45 – 12:00
12:00 – 12:30
Q&A
12:30 – 1:30
LUNCH (boxed lunches can be picked up outside Starr Auditorium)
Panel 3: Innovation in Action
1:45 – 2:00
The Implementation of Biofuel in Oil Firms: Unlocking a Path
Dependency and Steering towards a More Sustainable Trajectory
2:00 – 2:15
Can Firms Take Centre Stage in Innovation in Developing Countries? A
Schumpetarian Perspective
2:15 – 2:30
How the Interactions of Internal Organizations and External Linkages
Affect Product Innovation across Production Chains
Calestous Juma, Harvard
Kennedy School
President of Slovenia, Danilo
Türk
Venkatesh Narayanamurti,
Harvard School of
Engineering
Moderator: Can Huang
Marco Boggero, Paul H. Nitze
School of Advanced
International Studies, Johns
Hopkins University, USA
Youngji Jo, Bloomberg School
of Public Health, Johns
Hopkins University, USA
Julia Fan Li, Centre for
Technology Management,
University of Cambridge,
United Kingdom
Anshul Pachouri, Institute for
Competitiveness, India
Moderator: Julia Fan Li
Marlies Schütz, Karl Franzens
University, Austria
Brooke Smith, Tufts
University, USA
Marcia Villasana,
Tecnologico de Monterrey,
Mexico
Moderator: Marlies Schütz
Nelson Mojarro, University
of Sussex, United Kingdom
Gillian Marcelle, Wits
Business School, South Africa
Yasushi Ueki, Institute of
Developing Economies,
Japan
2:30 – 3:00
Q&A
Panel 4: Innovation Policy
3:00 – 3:15
How to Incentivate Intrapreneurship in Developing Economies?
3:15 – 3:30
Latin American Innovation Policy: Clusters of Innovation—A Missing Link
3:30 – 3:45
The Emergence of ST&I Policies Focusing the Relationship between
Universities and Companies in Brazil
3:45 – 4:00
State-led Technological Development: A Case of China’s Nanotechnology
Development
4:00 – 4:30
4:30 – 4:45
4:45 – 5:45
Q&A
Break
Keynote Presentation
5:45 – 6:45
Book talk
6:45 – 7:00
7:00 – 9:00
Closing Remarks
Reception (by invitation only)
8:00 – 8:30
8:30 – 8:40
8:40 – 8:45
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Continental Breakfast and registration
Opening Remarks
Polymers and Diplomacy
8:45 – 9:45
9:45 – 10:00
10:00 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:15
11:15 – 12:15
Polymer Introduction, Sujata Bhatia
Break
CE PoliMaT Introduction, Karin Stana-Kleinschek
Break
Plenary Presentation
12:15 – 1:15
LUNCH (boxed lunches can be picked up outside Starr Auditorium)
Polymer Presentations
1:15 – 1:30
1:30 – 1:45
1:45 – 2:00
Zorica Crnjak-Orel
Alenka Bundersek
Aljosa Vrhunec
Moderator: Gillian Marcelle
Marcia Campos, Institute of
Development and Public
Policy, Tecnologico de
Monterrey, Mexico
Adolfo Chiri, CENTRUMCatólica, Pontificia
Universidad Católica de Perú
Rafael Grilli Felizardo,
Observatory for Innovation
and Competitiveness,
University of Sao Paolo,
Brazil
Can Huang, United Nations
University Maastricht
Economic and Social
Research Institute on
Innovation and Technology,
Netherlands
F.M. Scherer, Harvard
Kennedy School
Donnie Maclurcan,
University of Technology,
Australia
Calestous Juma, HKS
Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer
Building
Calestous Juma
Maša Šiftar de Arzu,
Slovenian Embassy, USA
Chair: Alec Hansen, DAI, USA
Chair: Alec Hansen, DAI, USA
Gerd Meier zu Köcker,
Institute for Innovation and
Technology, Germany
Chairs: Mateja Dermastia, CE
PoliMaT, Slovenia, and
Fernando Quezada,
Biotechnology Center of
Excellence Corporation, USA
CE PoliMaT
Akripol
CE PoliMaT
2:00 – 2:15
2:15 – 2:45
2:45 – 3:00
3:00 – 4:00
Peter Venturini
Discussion
Break
Plenary Presentation
4:00 – 4:15
4:15 – 4:45
Break
Closing Remarks
Helios
Tim Tangredi, DAIS Analytic
Corporation, USA
Calestous Juma, HKS