Online workshop
20 October 2010

This online workshop enabled researchers from different disciplines interested in socio-economic and innovation aspects of nanotechnology to meet and find out about each other’s expertise, infrastructure and research interests. The speakers included Professor Mammo Muchie, expert in Innovation Studies based in South Africa, Professor Arie Rip, Dutch expert in Technology Assessment of Nanotechnology, and Professor Ishenkumba Kahwa, expert in Nanochemistry and Sustainable Development Issues for the CARICOM countries, based in Jamaica. 

Presentation slides now available >>
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About the speakers 

Prof Dr Mammo Muchie, Professor of Innovation Studies at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa and Aalborg University in Denmark and Oxford University, UK, Editor in Chief of the African Journal of Science, Technology and Innovation, http://www.ajstid.com/AJSTIDvol1%20flyer.pdf  http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/files/..., http://www.medalics.org/, http://www.nesglobal.org/, http://www.globelics.org/.

Prof Dr Arie Rip, Emeritus Professor in Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Twente, Flagship Captain Technology Assessment in national Nanotechnology programme NanoNed, The Netherlands http://www.mb.utwente.nl/steps/people/adjoined/rip/ and http://www.nanoned.nl/ta.html

Prof Dr Ishenkumba Kahwa is Professor of Supramolecular Chemistry at the University of the West Indies, Dean of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at the University’s Mona Campus, Jamaica, and author of UNESCO Report on Sustainable Development Issues for the CARICOM countries. http://myspot.mona.uwi.edu/fpas/ http://www.unesco.org/science/psd/thm_innov/cariscience.shtml