Panel II : Innovation System Conceptual Development Specification and Framework Setting

Panel II : Innovation System Conceptual Development Specification and Framework Setting

Profile of Panelists

Carlota Perez:

Venezuelan-British. Researcher, lecturer and international consultant,   specialized in the social and economic impact of technical change. She is   Honorary Professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose,   UCL-U.K. and at SPRU, Adjunct Professor at the Ragnar Nurkse  School of Innovation and Governance, Estonia and Academic in Residence at Anthemis  UK.

Franco Malerba

Professor of Applied Economics. President of ICRIOS, Bocconi  University. Editor of the Journal Industrial and Corporate Change. Advisory   editor of Research Policy. Associate editor of the Journal of Evolutionary   Economics. He has been President of   EARIE (European Association of Research in Industrial Economics) and of the   International Schumpeter Society.

Thokozani Simelane

Director of research at the Africa   Institute of South Africa (AISA). Worked   for the South African National Parks, the South African Bureau of Standards   (SABS) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Served   on the Standing Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (SACIP) of   South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry, the Research Ethics   Committee of the HSRC and the South African Chapter of the System Dynamics   Society.

Sunday Ojo

Professor of Computer Science, holding   BSc Honours  and PhD degrees in Computer. His academic career spans over 40 years,   engaging in teaching, research & innovation, postgraduate students   supervision in the field of Computing, at University of Ibadan in Nigeria,   University of Botswana in Botswana, and in South Africa, University of   Zululand, Tshwane University of Technology, and Durban University of   Technology. Consultant to Botswana   National Innovation Capability Database System, USAID Botswana Confederation   of Commerce, Industry and Manpower Economic Research database system,   Botswana National ICT Policy development, Commonwealth Network for   Information Technology (COMNET-IT) ICT capacity building project for   Commonwealth countries.

Saradindu Bhaduri

Associate Professor at the Centre   for Studies in Science Policy (CSSP) at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has   held the Prince Claus Chair in Frugal Innovation, Development and Equity at   the International Institute of Social Studies (of Erasmus University   Rotterdam, The Netherlands) during 2015-17, where he is currently a Professor   (honorary). Currently a member of the Trans-disciplinary Research Cluster on   Pluralist Health Care (TRCPHC), and Foundig  Coordinator of Trans-disciplinary Reseatch  Cluster in Frugality Studies (TRCFS) at JNU.

Sheikh Fayaz  Ahmad

Anke Weishe

Agricultural Engineer, Co-founder and Chair Innovation and   Business Management of the Pharm-Biotechnology and Traditional Medicine   Centre (PHARMBIOTRAC) at the Mbarara University of Science and   Technology, Mbarara,   Uganda. Anke is   also an External Expert to the European Commission Horizon 2020, a Member of   the Governing Council of the Sub Saharan Open University (SSOU) and serving   on the WHO Regional Expert Advisory Committee on Traditional Medicine for   COCID-19 response.

Ajebush Shafi  Short

Trained as an Economist and hold a   Master’s degree in Public Policy and Human Development from University of   Maastricht in Netherlands, and a PhD in Business Administration from Tshwane   University in South Africa. Part of the research team on catching-Up   EU-horizon project and working on agro-processing global value chain research   theme.