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Title: Mr. Job Title: Innogen Postgraduate Student Tel: +44 (0)1908 654634 Fax: +44 (0)1908 654825 Email: m.o.bolo@open.ac.uk Building: ESRC Innogen Centre, Development Policy and Practice, The Open University, Walton Hall, Room Number:
Prior to commencing PhD studies, Maurice was a Research Officer with the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS) based in Nairobi, Kenya. He coordinated an Africa-wide Biotechnology Programme whose key outcome was a joint International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and ATPS book in 2007 titled “Biotechnology: Eastern African Perspectives on Sustainable Development and Trade Policy” which he co-edited.
Maurice has conducted research consultancies with the World Bank, the United Nations University Institute for New Technologies (UNU-INTECH) and contributed a chapter in the World Bank’s book titled “Knowledge, Technology and Cluster – based Growth in Africa”
Besides his studies and research duties, Maurice is the Regional Coordinator of the African Youth Forum on Science and Technology (AYFST), a pan-African network of young professionals engaged in agriculture, science, technology and innovation for Africa’s development.
Wield, D., Chataway, J., Bolo, M (2010) ‘Issues in the Political Economy of Agricultural Biotechnology’, Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol 10, Issue 3, p342-366
Bolo, M.O (2007) ‘The Case of Lake Naivasha Cut flower Cluster in Kenya’ in Zeng, Z. D (eds) Knowledge, Technology and Cluster-Based Growth in Africa. The World Bank, Washington DC
Baumuller, H and Bolo, M (2007) Biotechnology: Eastern African perspectives on sustainable development and Policy making. International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD, Geneva) and African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS, Nairobi)
Bolo, M; Nancy, M; Racheal, W; Virginia, M and Daniel, K (2006) Research Priorities for Kenya’s cut flower Industry: Farmer’s Perspectives. Technopolicy brief 14. African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS) Nairobi, Kenya
Bolo, M (2005) Agricultural Systems of Science, technology and Innovation: The case of Kenya’s Floriculture Industry. Forthcoming from the Center for Technical and Rural Cooperation (CTA), the Netherlands
Title of Research
Partnerships for Learning and Innovation in Agricultural Export Industries: Comparative Case Studies of Cut Flowers in Kenya and Ethiopia
Research interests
Key research interests include the application of national innovation systems (NIS) approach to analyzing developing country agricultural and rural development. Other research areas include science and technology policy, innovation and cluster-based development as well as biotechnology and biosafety in the developing world.
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