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Symposium ‘09: Session 3 - What opportunities are presented by the global redistribution of innovative activity?
This session was chaired by Martin Bell and discussed the opportunities and challenges resulting from the emergence of new centres of science and innovation.
Background paper / Centres of Excellence? Questions of Capacity for Innovation, Sustainability, Development
By Melissa Leach and Linda Waldman
This paper explores what ‘mainstream’ Centres of Excellence might mean for developing countries and poor people.
Bellagio Conference on international agricultural research
The Ford and Rockefeller foundations invented the centre model for international agricultural research - developing and financing the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines (launched in 1962), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) in Mexico (in 1966), as well as the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture in Nigeria and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Colombia, both established in 1967. Thus the Bellagio Conference helped formalise the ‘centre’ model for international agricultural research, furthering the ‘Green Revolution’.
Inter Academy Council Report: Inventing a Better Future
The InterAcademy Council was established in May 2000 by a number of national science academies from around the world. (InterAcademy website) The authors highlight that “industrialized countries continue to vastly outspend the developing nations in research and even capture some of their most precious human resources for their own use.” (InterAcademy website)
