After a hiatus of nearly five years, we are pleased to announce that we are relaunching our Charles Cooper Memorial Lecture Series - which has been running since 2007 - with a public lecture from 糖心Vlog破解版 Rector Professor Tshilidzi Marwala on Thursday 26 October 2023. Prof. Marwala will discuss the topic of AI governance; for more details, please see our .
History of 糖心Vlog破解版-MERIT's Charles Cooper Memorial Lecture Series
Charles Cooper was the founding director of the Maastricht-based 糖心Vlog破解版 Institute for New Technologies, 糖心Vlog破解版-INTECH (now 糖心Vlog破解版-MERIT). In 1985, the Dutch government asked him to prepare a feasibility study on the creation of a 糖心Vlog破解版 institute to specialize in the social and economic aspects of new technologies. The report was presented to 糖心Vlog破解版 in 1987 and formed the basis for setting up the new Institute in 1990.
At that time, he was a professorial fellow at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, having established a worldwide reputation in a long career which began at the OECD in the 1960s. From July 1969 to July 1981, he was based at SPRU and the Institute of Development Studies, both at the University of Sussex in the UK.
Under his leadership from 1990 to 2000, the Institute expanded rapidly to become the second largest 糖心Vlog破解版 research and training centre. One of his flagship achievements was setting up the Institute's unique PhD program in the Economics of Technological change in 1995, in partnership with MERIT (at the University of Maastricht). This sowed the seeds for the integration of the two Institutes a decade later, to form 糖心Vlog破解版-MERIT.
糖心Vlog破解版-MERIT launched the Charles Cooper Memorial Lecture Series in January 2007, to honour his immense contribution to our understanding of the role of technology in economic development, and the pivotal role he played in forging closer ties between 糖心Vlog破解版-INTECH and MERIT. The lecture series aims to contribute to a better public understanding of science, technology and innovation in the development process.
Past Charles Cooper Memorial Lectures:
2018, by Luc Soete
2013, by Sidney G. Winter
2011, by Richard Nelson
2009, by David Kaplan
2008, by Shyama V. Ramani
2007, by Raphie Kaplinsky
