Date: 19 - 30 November 2012
Venue: Moi University, Kenya
The purpose of the African Academy for Research Training on Innovation and Competence Building Systems (AfricaLics Academy) is to support the training of African Ph.D. students engaged in research on Learning, Innovation and Competence Building Systems for Development and stimulate their awareness of policy and management issues related to this field of research.
The Academy aims at improving students' ability to undertake theoretically informed and policy-relevant empirical work on issues related with innovation in firms and societies, and its relationship with economic development. The Academy will invite frontier researchers in innovation and development from around the world to provide lectures and mentor students. The topics of the lectures will cover specific issues within innovation studies and economic development as well as research methods and innovation policy. Particular attention will be given to topics directly relevant to African priorities. The on-going work of participants will be discussed and they will get feedback from senior scholars and from the other participants.
The list of invited international lecturers include: Abdelkader Djeflat (Algeria and France); Anthony Arundel (Canada); Banji Oyeyinka (Kenya); Bengt-Åke Lundvall (Denmark); Calestous Juma (USA); Fred Gault (Netherlands); Keun Lee (South Korea); Mammo Muchie (Ethiopia and Denmark); Martin Bell (United Kingdom); Rasigan Maharajh (South Africa).
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