During August 3-7 there was a meeting in Lima to celebrate 40 years of the STPI Project, which explored the design and implementation of science and technology policies for development. This project included ten national teams and was carried out between 1973 and 1979. Participants
Veronica Heler, Editorial Coordinator of “Ciencia Nueva” (New Science), the electronic journal on science and technology edited in Argentina, interviewed me on issues regarding science, technology and development in Latin America. The interviews (in Spanish) are available in: Science and technology policies Innovation and creativity
On July 18, 2013 I was invited to present the ideological platform of the political party “Fuerza Social”. A few years ago I was asked to coordinate a large team in charge of preparing this document, which can be seen (in Spanish) here. My presentation
A meeting on global changes and the disruptions they create for international civil society organizations took place during June 4-8, 2013, at the Rockefeller Foundation center in Bellagio. The final report of this exercise, which took several months of work, will be published shortly. In
At the end of March 2013 I had the opportunity of visiting Helio Jaguaribe, mentor, colleague and friend, from whom I have learned much over the years. The first book of Helio I read in the 1960s was his magisterial Economic Development and Political Development
At the invitation of Mrs. Rebeca Arias, Resident Representative of the UNDP and United Nations Coordinator in Peru, I took part in the presentation of the UNDP Human Development Report 2013. The theme of the report is “The Rise of the South: Human Progress in
A while after I made a presentation at the conference Aula Magna 2012 organized the PUCP, I completed the preparation of a paper based on my intervention. See the paper (in Spanish only) here.
On March 14, 2013, I delivered the inaugural address for the academic year at the Universidad Continental, in Huancayo, Peru. At that time I received an Honorary Doctoral degree from this center of higher studies. The theme of my conference was the future of higher
After completing practically all the operations of the Program on Science and Technology (FINCyT 1) at the Office of the Prime Minister, and after the designation of the new chairman of the Board of the Program on Innovation and Competitiveness (FINCyT 2) which will replace
The Center of Information on International Cooperation, directed by Philipp Schonrock in Bogota, Colombia, published a report on the trend and scenarios for international development cooperation. This report examines the future prospects of cooperation in Latin America, and makes use of some of the material