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The COVID-19 pandemic and the call for innovation policies in the health sector

19 October 2021  |  By: Julia Paranhos, associate professor at the Economics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IE/UFRJ), Brazil

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the importance of well-defined, long-term industrial and STI policies aimed at mitigating the risks associated with innovative activities that target unmet public ...











G7 Summit: time to put women front and centre of the global economic recovery

G7 Summit: time to put women front and centre of the global economic recovery

06 July 2021  |  By: Fatou Haidara, Managing Director, Directorate of Corporate Management and Operations, UNIDO, and Helen McEachern, Chief Executive Officer, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women

The leaders of the G7 group of nations will soon gather in Cornwall, United Kingdom, to devise plans to ‘build back better’ from the COVID-19 pandemic. The summit takes place in the wake of a crisis ...