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<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b>THE SECOND SCIENCE WITH AFRICA CONFERENCE</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b>(<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270563127_0" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; ">2-4 June 2010</span>)</b></font></p>
</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></p><div align="center"><br><font size="6" face="Times New Roman"><b>Call for Papers</b></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align: auto;">
<br></div><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><b>The <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270563127_1" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; ">United Nations Economic Commission for Africa</span> (ECA)</b> and its regional and international partners are inviting submissions of papers for the second “Science with Africa” Conference, entitled</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b>Science, Innovation and Entrepreneurship</b>. The conference will explore tools and measures to build the necessary human capital, STI infrastructure, financial instruments, strategies targeting under represented groups (e.g. youth and women) and international collaboration for promoting innovation and entrepreneurship for economic and social transformation in Africa. Special attention will be placed on measures for stimulating the private sector and academia to play a key role in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as on legal and regulatory agencies to create a conducive environment within which innovation and entrepreneurship flourishes. Specific issues to be discussed include<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270563127_2">intellectual property protection</span>, innovative investment tools, strategies for <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270563127_3">human capital development</span> (both for R&D performance and entrepreneurial activities) and use of networks and collaborations to promote innovation and entrepreneurship.</font> <br>
<br><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">The papers should focus on Africa in the topics specified below:</font> <br><br><font size="2" face="Symbol">· </font><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><b>Policies</b>: Papers could address policy and strategies for stimulating R&D performance, emergence of entrepreneurial institutions and innovation in industry. These could address protection of intellectual property and increasing Africa’s share of global patents, university-industry collaborations, technology transfer, diffusion of technology to and promoting innovation at the grassroot level, engineering and entrepreneurship,, existence and use of technology standards and regulatory agencies to promote innovation and entrepreneurship.</font><div>
<br><br><font size="2" face="Symbol">· </font><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><b>Enabling environment for Innovation:</b> Institutional framework (national and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270563127_4">regional Innovation systems</span>); implicit policies to strengthen linkages between NIS and RIS, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270563127_5">national technology policy</span> instruments, legal and regulatory frameworks for governing innovation and entrepreneurship, enabling <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270563127_6">intellectual property right</span> regimes as a stimulus to local inventive and innovative activities.</font><div>
<br><br><font size="3" face="Symbol">· </font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><b>Financing innovation –</b> </font><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Papers may address innovative financial instruments that foster innovation and entrepreneurship. They could also address ways for increasing financial resources for start-up, R&D, technology acquisition and transfer and for expansion though commercial and development banks, venture capital and industrial financing firms., They could also look at ways of using of intellectual assets (e.g.</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> patents) as collateral, promoting public-private partnerships investments in innovation and commercialisation of R&D, patent registration and creation of companies;</font><div>
<br><br><font size="2" face="Symbol">· </font><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><b>Innovative strategies for <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270563127_7" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">technology commercialization</span> in Africa: </b>Papers in this areas could focus on national and institutional lessons and experiences in commercializing R&D outputs of universities and other R&D institutions; policies, measures and incentives for technology transfer, key challenges and opportunities faced by <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270563127_8">technology transfer offices</span> and skills and management experiences in diffusing and commercializing public goods , <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270563127_9">technology transfer mechanisms</span> in the private sector, </font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">access to patented knowledge for innovation</font><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"> and innovative public-private partnerships for technology commercialization<b></b></font><div>
<br><br><font size="2" face="Symbol">· </font><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><b>The paper can be tailored to fall under the following themes or tracks::</b></font><div><br><br><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">1. Science, technology and innovation policies</font> <br>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman">2. Energy, water, transport and infrastructure</font> <br><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">3. Agriculture, health and life science</font> <br><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">4. <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270563127_10">Climate change</span> in Africa</font> <br>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman">5. <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270563127_11">Intellectual property rights</span> and technology transfer</font> <br><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">6. Information and Communication Technologies</font> <br>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman">7. Innovation and entrepreneurial capacities</font> <br><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">8. STI capacity building among target groups – women, youth and immigrants</font><div>
<br><br><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">The papers may provide some emerging global/regional or national trends in terms of technologies, innovation, policies and strategies, suggest ways in which Africa can promote innovation and entrepreneurship in the sector or issue of interest and potential benefit. National and regional experiences are encouraged. </font><br>
<br><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><b>Format requirements</b></font> <br><br><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Submissions should be no more than 4000 words. The cover page should include (1) title, (2) authors and affiliation, (3) e-mail address of contact author and an abstract describing the contributions. Abstracts should not exceed 150 words</font> <br>
<br><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">All manuscripts will be reviewed by the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270563127_12">United Nations Economic Commission for Africa</span> on their quality and relevance for the conference. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Authors of accepted papers may be supported to participate in the conference.</font> <br>
<br><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><b>Key Dates</b></font> <br><table border=""><tbody><tr valign="top"><td><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Deadline for Submission of</font></div></td><td><div></div></td>
</tr><tr valign="top"><td><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Papers (max. 4000 words) and Author Profile (max 100 words)</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270563127_13" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; ">30 April 2010</span></font></div>
</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Notification Due:</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270563127_14" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; ">15 May 2010</span></font></div>
</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Papers Submission:</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" color="blue" face="Times New Roman"><u><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270563127_15" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; "><a href="mailto:swa@uneca.org">swa@uneca.org</a></span></u></font></div>
</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td><div><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Conference website</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.uneca.org/sciencewithafrica"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270563127_16">www.uneca.org/sciencewithafrica</span></a></font></div>
</td></tr></tbody></table><br><br><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Register online at </font><font size="3" color="blue" face="Times New Roman"><u><a target="_blank" href="http://www.uneca.org/sciencewithafrica/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270563127_17">http://www.uneca.org/sciencewithafrica/</span></a><b>.</b></u><b></b></font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> You can also send an email to: </font><font size="3" color="blue" face="Times New Roman"><u><a href="mailto:swa@uneca.org">swa@uneca.org</a></u></font><font size="3" color="#002041" face="Times New Roman"> for details</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">.</font><div>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Thierry H. Amoussougbo<br>Regional Advisor, ICT Initiatives<br>ICT, Science & Technology Division (ISTD)<br>United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)<br>Tel: 251 11 5443053<br>
Fax: 251 11 5510512<br>E-mail : <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1270563127_18" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; "><a href="mailto:tamoussougbo@uneca.org">tamoussougbo@uneca.org</a></span><br>
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