ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INNOVATION, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IN LUSOPHONE AFRICAN COUNTRIES

Friday 23 November 2012
14.00 – 18.00
Council Room, Strand Campus, King's College London

This event is open to the general public. No booking required.

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In an increasingly competitive world, African development faces multiple and profound challenges. From the beginning of this century Africa has revealed several optimistic signs. The change of structural characteristics of African economies implies, for example, a more dynamic role of the private sector and a priority towards education. Lusophone African countries are by any means an exception. The role that entrepreneurship might have in these countries as well as the importance that science, innovation and technology should have as the basis for development deserve to be considered as focal points. This Executive Seminar will address these issues and provide an opportunity to discuss their impact and potential.

Opening address: His Excellency Ambassador Murade Isaac Miguigy Murargy , Executive-Secretary of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries/ Comunidade dos Países de Língua Oficial Portuguesa-CPLP)

Keynote Speaker: Professor Lidia Brito, Director of Division of Science Policy and Capacity-Building, UNESCO – “Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Science & Technology in Lusophone Africa: drivers for sustainable development?”

Closing Words: Professor Martin Bell, Emeritus Professor University of Sussex, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research.

Participants – Lidia Brito (UNESCO), Martin Bell (University of Sussex, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research), Fausto Carvalho Simões (University Agostinho Neto, Angola), Manuel Ennes Ferreira (ISEG/SOCIUS), Luisa Pinto Teixeira (Camões Centre, King’s College London), Sandro Mendonça (ISCTE/ Lisbon University Institute), Ana Ponte (Ministry of Education and Science, Portugal), João Noronha (EUROSIS – Consultoria e Formação em Gestão – Mozambique), Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (University of Oxford), Anthony Pereira (Brazil Institute, King’s College London), Gavin Williams (University of Oxford), Rodrigo Brum (Portuguese Mint and National Printing Office-INCM,SA).

This seminar is organized by the Camões Centre at King’s College London with SOCIUS/ISEG and the Faculty of Economy of the University Agostinho Neto, Angola, and convened by Luisa Pinto Teixeira, Manuel Ennes Ferreira and Sandro Mendonça.

The seminar takes place at King’s College London on the Strand. For directions, please visit our website.

Instituto Camões Centre for Studies in Portuguese Language and Culture
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