TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION REPORT 2021
TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION REPORT 2021
The Technology and Innovation Report 2021 was prepared under the overall guidance of Shamika N. Sirimanne, Director of the Division on Technology and Logistics, by a team comprising Clovis Freire (team leader), Bob Bell, Daisuke Maruichi and Laura Cyron. Susan Cozzens (Professor Emerita, Georgia Tech) and Alfred Watkins (Chairman of the Global Solutions Summit) were part of the team as consultant external experts. Abiy Solomon, Eugenia Nunez, Kamal Tahiri Jouti, Katalin Bokor, Maria Godunova, Miguel PerezLudena and Xinxin Pan provided substantive inputs. The work of the team was supervised by Angel González Sanz; Dong Wu (until 15 July 2020) and Liping Zhang (from 15 July 2020) provided substantive comments and suggestions.
UNCTAD greatly appreciates the contributions in the format of boxes provided by Dame Wendy Hall (University of Southampton), David Autor (MIT), Edward Lorenz (University of Côte d'Azur), Jacob Rubæk Holm (Aalborg University), Roberta Rabellotti (Università di Pavia), and Sonia Jorge, Nathalia Foditsch, Eleanor Sarpong and Maiko Nakagaki (A4AI). The written contributions by Aliza Inbal (Pears Program for Global Innovation) are also acknowledged with appreciation.
Comments and suggestion received from experts attending an ad-hoc expert consultation held in December 2019 in Geneva, and the online peer review meeting organized in December 2020, are also gratefully acknowledged. The experts included: Carlo Pietrobelli (University Roma Tre), Catherine Adeya (Strathmore University), Chux Daniels (SPRU-University of Sussex), Dominique Foray (EPFL), Dorothea Kleine (Sheffield Institute for International Development), Edward Lorenz (University of Côte d'Azur), Eleanor Sarpong (A4A), Fernando Santiago (UNIDO), George Essegbey (Council of Science and Industrial Research of Ghana), Irmgard Nübler (ILO), Jacob Rubæk Holm (Aalborg University), Jean-Eric Aubert (French Foresight Society), Kornelia Tzinova (UNESCO), Ludovico Alcorta (UNU-MERIT), Marco Vivarelli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Marta Perez Cuso (ESCAP), Phillippa Biggs (ITU), Roberta Rabellotti (Università di Pavia), and Tony Roberts (Institute of Development Studies).
Valuable written comments and suggestions were also provided by the following experts: Faye Duchin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Richard Alex Roehrl (DESA), Robert D. Atkinson (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation).
Comments received from other UNCTAD divisions as part of the internal peer review process, as well as comments from the Office of the Secretary-General, are acknowledged with appreciation. Valuable comments and suggestions regarding the Report’s statistical methods and framework were given by Fernando CantuBazaldua, Nour Barnat and Stephen Mac Feely. Comments and suggestions by the following UNCTAD staff are also gratefully acknowledged: Anida Yupari, Dan Teng’o, Ebru Gokce-Dessemond, Isya Hanum Kresnadi and Patrick Osakwe. Useful written comments were also given by Jan Hoffmann and Torbjörn Fredriksson.
UNCTAD greatly appreciates the inputs by the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth (UNMGCY) and the Journal of Science Policy and Governance (JSPG) through the JSPG-UN MGCY Special Issue on Impacts of Emerging Technologies on Inequality and Sustainability. UNCTAD also greatly appreciates the inputs provided by a team of BSc, MSc, and Ph.D. students from Wageningen University and Research (WUR) and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY): Alessandro Caprini, Aneeqah Tariq, Anna Rossi, Blue Donaton, Cecilia Consalvo, Chiara Fiorino, Cléa Montanari, Citra Siagian, Corry Rothuizen, Garima Chotani, Jared Gambo, Jessica Breslau, Julie Romano, Lorena Esquivias, Linne van der Meulen, Marvin Leon Matheis, Max van Deursen, Michelle Viera, Rabia Munsaf Khan, Sara Mancinelli, Shanel Khaliq, Sofie de Wit, and Wessel van Dorst.
Research support was provided by Fan Yang, Giulio Dalle Donne, Josephine Loche, Louisa Richards, Ronak Shahsavar and Weijing Ye during their internship at UNCTAD.
The manuscript was substantively edited by Peter Stalker. Magali Studer designed the cover. Infographics were prepared by Magali Studer and Carlos Reyes. Malou Pasinos provided administrative support.
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