AfricaLics

5th PhD Academy - Rethinking National Innovation System for Africa’s Development
2017-06-19 - 2017-06-30
The fifth AfricaLics PhD Academy was held at the conference hall of National Centre for Technology Management, Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife.
The Academy was held over a two-week period in June 2017 at National Centre for Technology Management in Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria. The programme of activities included sessions focused on innovation and development theory, research methods, policy and impact as well as project element. Students were selected through an open call for applications and review of applications by members of the AfricaLics Scientific Board and Secretariat. The event consisted of an open symposium held the conference centre Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife.
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4th PhD Academy – Innovation Systems and Innovation Management in Africa
2016-03-21 - 2016-04-02
The Fourth AfricaLics PhD Academy was held at Diar Lemdina, a resort hotel just outside Hammamet in Tunisia. The Academy was hosted by Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Tunis in collaboration with the University of Manouba, Tunisia.
The Academy was held over a two week period in March 2016 at Diar Lemdina outside Hammamet, Tunisia. The programme of activities included sessions focused on innovation and development theory, research methods, policy and impact as well as project element. Students were selected through an open call for applications and review of applications by members of the AfricaLics Scientific Board and Secretariat.
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2nd Research Conference – University of Rwanda
2015-11-17 - 2015-11-19
The 2nd AfricaLics conference was the first conference to be held in Africa specifically focusing on the current state of research on African Innovation and Development. It took place in Rwanda from 17 – 19 November 2015 and was hosted by University of Rwanda, College of Business and Economics (CBE). It brought together 220 leading scholars from 30 countries working on innovation and development in Africa with the foremost scholars from outside Africa.
The theme of this conference was ‘unpacking systems of innovation for sustainable development in Africa’.

Writeshop and grants management workshop
2015-08-25 - 2015-08-28
The first AfricaLics Write-shop and Grants Management Workshop took place on 24th – 28th August 2015 at the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI), Pretoria. The main aim of the workshop was to develop skills on how to write a paper for publication in a journal through a collaborative process. Six papers collaboratively written by seed funded project members were intensively discussed, focusing on the Titles, Abstracts, theory, literature review and the structure of the papers. The grant management workshop took place on the last day where experiences on the projects were shared and generally on grant management systems.

3rd PhD Academy – Innovation and development in Africa
2015-03-02 - 2015-03-13
The Third AfricaLics PhD Academy was held over a two week period in March 2015 at Moi University’s Coast Campus in Mombasa, Kenya. The programme of activities included sessions focused on innovation and development theory, research methods, policy and impact as well as project element. Students were selected through an open call for applications and review of applications by members of the AfricaLics Scientific Board and Secretariat. The event also consisted of an Open Symposium allowing members of the public to attend and hear lectures on the ‘state of the art’ theory and debate on innovation and development in Africa, and Kenya specifically. All of the events were held at the Coast Campus administration building on Liwatoni Road in Mombasa.

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Research Partnership Building Workshop – Maputo, Mozambique
2013-12-02 - 2013-12-03
The first research partnerships building workshop under the African Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems (AfricaLics) was held at Hotel Cardoso, Maputo, Mozambique from 2-3 December 2013.
The purpose of this workshop was to bring together researchers from the innovation and development community and provide a space for creative thinking concerning new research projects or research dissemination projects in this area in Africa.
The workshop was a follow up to an initial meeting of academics studying innovation and development held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in December 2012 where there was agreement that research was lacking in a number of subject areas which are essential to the development of African economies and livelihoods.
The Maputo workshop was held as a means to start a programme of work that would reduce the research gaps in some, if not all, of the above subject areas. The workshop used a series of group work activities to bring out research ideas and potential activities that could be carried out by a group of researchers within and around each thematic research area.

2nd PhD Academy- Emerging Innovation systems for development and Innovation Management in Africa
2013-10-20 - 2013-10-31
The second AfricaLics PhD academy was conducted from the 20th to the 31st October 2013. The purpose of the Academy was to support the training of African Ph.D. students engage in research on innovations and technology systems to develop and stimulate their policy awareness and management issues related to their fields of research. This second Academy brought together 19 students from 14 countries and 11 instructors. It targeted mainly French speaking countries in Africa. The academy was opened with an inaugural colloquium with participation of researchers, students and policy makers. The training was delivered via lectures, seminars, round table discussions and critical review of students’ research by fellow students and senior scholars. The different sessions were structured in a way to encourage active discussion among participants in order to enhance their critical thinking about African Contemporary issues. All 19 AfricaLics students were issued certificates of participation on 31 October 2013 upon successful completion of the 2 weeks training.
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Call for papers – 2nd AfricaLics PhD Academy

1st PhD Academy – Innovation and Development in Africa
2012-11-19 - 2012-11-30
The first inaugural Africalics academy was held in Kenya, from 19th November to 30th November 2012 at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies (KSMS). The Academy was jointly organized by the African Centre of Technology Studies (ACTS), Kenya and Moi University, Kenya with support from Globelics Secretariat, Aalborg University.
The purpose of the Academy was 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 aimed 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 invited frontier researchers in innovation and development from around the world to provide lectures and mentor students. The topics of the lectures covered specific issues within innovation studies and economic development as well as research methods and innovation policy. Particular attention was 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 included: Abdelkader Djeflat (Algeria and France); Anthony Arundel (Canada); Banji Oyeyinka (Kenya); Bengt-Åke Lundvall (Denmark); Fred Gault (Netherlands); Keun Lee (South Korea); Mammo Muchie (Ethiopia and Denmark); Martin Bell (United Kingdom); Rasigan Maharajh (South Africa).
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Call for papers – Nairobi PhD Academy
