In Michaelmas Term 2012 the Technology and Management for Development Centre and the Saïd Business School will held two joint workshops. The first workshop will be held in Queen Elizabeth House on Tuesday, 23 October 2012 (Seminar Room 3). The second workshop will take place in Saïd Business School on Tuesday, 27 November 2012. The purpose of these workshops is to share information about the most recent research made by the Technology and Management for Development Centre and the Saïd Business School investigators, to promote debate on innovation policy and management and how technology and innovation can serve economic growth and sustainable and inclusive development issues, and to work as a platform to discuss ideas and share knowledge. All are welcome.

Oxford Department of International Development, 23 October 2012


15.00 – 16.40 (Seminar Room 3)


Dr Giacomo Zanello, University of Oxford, ‘Transaction costs, information technologies, and the choice of marketplace in northern Ghana’


Claudia Contreras, University of Oxford, ‘Incentives and Technology Transfer in Universities in Chile (Case study)’


Dr Maria Teresa Aceytuno Perez, University of Huelva, ‘Academic Spin-offs Incubation Strategies: The Case of the Andalusian Region in the South of Spain’


17.00 – 18.00 (Meeting Room A)


Prof Pierre Mohnen, UNU-Merit, ‘Dynamic models of R&D, innovation and productivity’