Ways forward for the IHERD research and findings

By Karen MacGregor. Findings of research conducted for the OECD’s Innovation, Higher Education and Research for Development programme, IHERD, will be reincarnated in other initiatives – the new Innovation Policy Platform, country reviews of research and innovation systems, and the Project on Innovation for Inclusive Development – said Dominique Guellec, head of the country study and outlook division in the directorate of science, technology and industry. Many participants in the concluding session of the experts meeting of IHERD, held in Marseille from 1-2 July, made it very clear that they were unhappy about the project ending. Read more...