Calestous Juma
Kenyan academic
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Economics
Calestous Juma's Degrees
- PhD Science and Technology Policy University of Sussex
- Masters Science and Technology Policy University of Sussex
- Bachelors Agricultural Economics University of Nairobi
Why Is Calestous Juma Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Calestous Juma was a Kenyan scientist and academic, specializing in sustainable development. He was named one of the most influential 100 Africans in 2012, 2013 and 2014 by the New African magazine. He was Professor of the Practice of International Development and Faculty Chair of the Innovation for Economic Development Executive Program at Harvard Kennedy School. Juma was Director of the School's Science, Technology and Globalization Project at Harvard Kennedy School as well as the Agricultural Innovation in Africa Project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. His last book, Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies, was published by Oxford University Press in 2016.
Calestous Juma's Published Works
Published Works
- [The United Nations Development Program]. (1969) (1534)
- Innovation : applying knowledge in development (2005) (319)
- Biodiversity Prospecting: Using Genetic Resources for Sustainable Development (1993) (288)
- The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa (2011) (183)
- The Gene Hunters: Biotechnology and the Scramble for Seeds (1989) (127)
- International Ecosystem Assessment (1999) (109)
- Policy research in sub‐Saharan Africa: An exploration (1995) (106)
- Global governance of technology: meeting the needs of developing countries (2001) (98)
- Long-run economics: An evolutionary approach to economic growth (1987) (83)
- A new lease on life. (1993) (66)
- Agricultural Innovation Systems (2015) (61)
- The role of the parataxonomists, inventory managers, and taxonomists in Costa Rica's national biodiversity inventory. (1993) (52)
- In land we trust: environment, private property and constitutional change. (1996) (51)
- Going for growth : science, technology and innovation in Africa (2005) (48)
- Contracts for biodiversity prospecting. (1993) (48)
- Preventing hunger: Biotechnology is key (2011) (45)
- Reinventing global health: the role of science, technology, and innovation (2005) (44)
- Calestous JumaA Complexity , Innovation , and Development : Schumpeter Revisited (2014) (39)
- The way to wealth (2005) (38)
- Biological diversity and innovation: conserving and utilizing genetic resources in Kenya. (1989) (37)
- Taking Root: Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction Come Together in the Tropics (2005) (36)
- Gaining ground: institutional innovations in land-use management in Kenya. (1991) (36)
- An intellectual property rights framework for biodiversity prospecting. (1993) (36)
- Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies (2016) (32)
- The Gene Hunters (1989) (31)
- Biodiplomacy : genetic resources and international relations (1995) (30)
- Infrastructure, innovation and development (2006) (28)
- The new bioeconomy: industrial and environmental biotechnology in developing countries (2001) (23)
- Costa Rica's conservation program and National Biodiversity Institute (INBio). (1993) (23)
- Higher education in economic transformation (2006) (22)
- Biosafety : the safe application of biotechnology in agriculture and the environment (1992) (21)
- Biotechnology in a Globalizing World: The Coevolution of Technology and Social Institutions (2005) (19)
- Redesigning African Economies The Role of Engineering in International Development (2006) (19)
- Biotechnology for sustainable development: policy options for developing countries. (1991) (18)
- Technological Catch-Up: Opportunities and Challenges for Developing Countries (2002) (18)
- Africa in the Global Knowledge Economy: Strategic Options (2006) (17)
- Innovation capabilities for sustainable development in Africa (2014) (15)
- The global sustainability challenge: from agreement to action (2002) (14)
- Ecophilosophy and the Parental Earth Ethics (1994) (14)
- Advances in Science, Technology, and Engineering (2015) (14)
- A Change in the weather: African perspectives on climatic change (1991) (14)
- Science Meets Farming in Africa (2011) (13)
- Reinventing growth: science, technology and innovation in Africa (2006) (13)
- Technology prospecting: lessons from the early history of the Chile Foundation (2007) (13)
- Industrial Applications for bio technology Opportunities for Developing Countries (2002) (13)
- The New Age of Biodiplomacy (2005) (13)
- Biotechnology in the global economy: beyond technical advances and risks (1999) (11)
- Broadband Internet for Africa (2008) (11)
- Sustainable food systems for optimal planetary health (2017) (11)
- Learn to Earn (2008) (11)
- Commentary: The Perils of Centralizing Global Environmental Governance (2000) (10)
- africa's new engine (2011) (9)
- Establishing a space sector for sustainable development in Kenya (2012) (9)
- Research management policies: permits for collecting and research in the tropics. (1993) (9)
- Biotechnology for sustainable development (1991) (9)
- Education, Research, and Innovation in Africa Forging Strategic Linkages for Economic Transformation (2016) (8)
- Property rights, biotechnology, and genetic resources (1992) (8)
- The Convention on Biological Diversity and intellectual property rights. (1993) (8)
- How not to save the world (2002) (7)
- TOP PRIORITIES FOR THE CONTINENT IN 2014 (2014) (7)
- APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY FOR SUSTAINABLE FOOD SECURITY (2001) (7)
- TECHNICAL CHANGE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Developing Country Perspectives (2002) (6)
- Farmers as entrepreneurs: sources of agricultural innovation in Africa (2014) (6)
- Biotechnology in the global economy. (2000) (6)
- Enhancing food security in an era of global climate change (2010) (6)
- Agricultural innovation and economic growth in Africa: renewing international cooperation (2008) (6)
- African Regional Economic Integration: The Emergence, Evolution, and Impact of Institutional Innovation (2018) (5)
- Innovation and sovereignty (1989) (5)
- Promoting International Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies: The Case for National Incentive Schemes (1994) (5)
- African health innovation systems: preface (2010) (5)
- Coming to life: Biotechnology in African economic recovery (1995) (5)
- Policy options for scientific and technological capacity-building. (1993) (4)
- Technological Abundance for Global Agriculture: The Role of Biotechnology (2012) (4)
- Development: Starved for solutions (2013) (4)
- Transgenic Crops and Food Security (2014) (4)
- Biotechnology and international relations: forging new strategic partnerships (2002) (4)
- Biotechnology and the precautionary principle (2002) (4)
- Market Restructuring and Technology Acquisition: Power Alcohol in Kenya and Zimbabwe (1985) (4)
- Bundling critical information infrastructure in Africa: implications for science and innovation policy (2008) (4)
- Patterns of Political Support and Pathways to Final Impact (2007) (4)
- Building New Agricultural Universities in Africa (2012) (4)
- Stemming the tide: an action agenda (1991) (4)
- Safe use of biotechnology: biotechnology for developing-country agriculture problems and opportunities (1999) (3)
- Taking Root: Global Trends in Agricultural Biotechnology (2015) (3)
- Technology issues in the energy sector of developing countries : power alcohol in Kenya and Zimbabwe : a case study in the transfer of a renewable energy technology (1984) (3)
- THE NEW CULTURE OF INNOVATION Africa in the Age of Technological Opportunities (2008) (3)
- Public policy and the Yala Swamp (1989) (3)
- Technological Learning and Sustainability Transition: The Role of Institutions of Higher Learning in Africa (2007) (3)
- Institutional reform and technology development: the case of ITRI (2008) (3)
- Biotechnology and food security (2014) (3)
- Public Policy and New Generic Technologies: The Case of Biotechnology in Sub-Saharan Africa (1997) (2)
- Sustaining tropical agriculture (2002) (2)
- Improving Human Welfare: The Crucial Role of Open Access (2006) (2)
- Game Over? (2019) (2)
- Biological diversity and innovation (1989) (2)
- Part III - How well does established theory work (1988) (2)
- Food security: Growing trouble (2012) (2)
- Evolutionary technological change : the case of fuel ethanol in developing countries (1986) (2)
- Agricultural biotechnology: the road to improved nutrition and increased production? (2003) (2)
- In land we trust (2016) (1)
- The Growing Economy (2015) (1)
- Gales of Creative Destruction (2016) (1)
- The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization Changed the World, 1945-1965 (2008) (1)
- SOCIETAL BENEFITS OF AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY Global Status and Outlook (2014) (1)
- 1. Genetic Resources and Socio-economic Evolution (1989) (1)
- 2. Explorations in Historical Botany (1989) (1)
- Preface: building trust in agricultural biotechnology partnerships (2012) (1)
- African Megacities As Emerging Innovation Ecosystems (2017) (1)
- INDUSTRIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGY Developing Countries in a New Bioeconomy (1)
- Exponential Innovation and Human Rights: Implications for Science and Technology Diplomacy (2018) (1)
- BookExplaining technical change: A case study of the philosophy of science : Jon Elster 273 pages, (Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1983) (1984) (1)
- A manifesto for the disenchanted (2003) (1)
- growIng the nutrItIonaL revoLutIon (1)
- Summer books (2013) (0)
- Public Policy Making in Kenya: Challenges and Options for Institutional Reform. (1992) (0)
- Environmentally Sound Technology Transfer and Capacity Building in Africa: Strengthening Incentive Systems (2019) (0)
- AFR Volume 58 issue 2 Front matter (1988) (0)
- A study of ethanol production in Kenya. (1984) (0)
- Appendix: Institutions Conserving Genetic Resources (1989) (0)
- Preface: building trust in agricultural biotechnology partnerships (2012) (0)
- 12 Questions to … 12 Fragen an … (2007) (0)
- Leapfrogging in Genetic Technologies (2015) (0)
- AFR volume 58 issue 4 Front matter (1988) (0)
- 5. Life as Intellectual Property (1989) (0)
- Reginald Green, Marja-Liisa Kiljunen and Kimmo Kiljunen (eds.), Namibia: the last Colony, Harlow: Longman, 1981, 310 pp., £15 hard covers, £5.95 paperback. (1983) (0)
- Bioscience will be the key that allows Africa to feed itself (2011) (0)
- How Bio-sciences could trigger a Green Revolution in Africa (2011) (0)
- Harnessing University Strengths in Multisectoral Collaborations for Planetary Health (2018) (0)
- 4. Branching Points in Biotechnology (1989) (0)
- Stop the Presses (2016) (0)
- Global Governance and Technology (2001) (0)
- Africa braces for the gathering storm (1991) (0)
- TRANSCRIPT: Kenya-Born Harvard Professor Speaks at U.S. Africa Command Headquarters (2009) (0)
- Plowing Ahead (2020) (0)
- Special Issue: Health innovation in sub-Saharan Africa. (2010) (0)
- 6. Germplasm and Kenya's Agriculture: A Case Study (1989) (0)
- Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology . By Rachel Schurman and William A. Munro. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2010. 296p. $22.50. (2013) (0)
- Courting success for the future (1999) (0)
- Development that works, March 31, 2011 (2011) (0)
- 7. The Way Ahead: Policy Options for Africa (1989) (0)
- AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY Benefits, Opportunities and Leadership (2011) (0)
- Intellectual property management: biotechnology for developing-country agriculture problems and opportunities (1999) (0)
- Renewable energy: the power to choose : Daniel Deudney and Christopher Flavin 431 pages (New York, W.W. Norton and Company, 1983) (1983) (0)
- Facing the Music (2016) (0)
- Space Technology and Africa's Development: The Strategic Role of Small Satellites (2017) (0)
- AFR volume 62 issue 3 Front matter (1992) (0)
- Innovation in emerging markets (2017) (0)
- Kenya: see how they move. (1982) (0)
- The Green State in Africa. By Carl Death. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 384p. $45.00 cloth. (2018) (0)
- 3. Genetic Resources and World Agriculture (1989) (0)
- Oiling the Wheels of Novelty (2016) (0)
- AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION AND PROSPERITY IN AFRICA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (2011) (0)
- Swimming against the Current (2016) (0)
- Incremental costs, economic uncertainty and public policy: the case for capacity-building in developing countries (1998) (0)
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