Session 3: Technology gaps and needs, and enabling conditions for technology facilitation

This is a list of presentations for Session 3: Technology gaps and needs, and enabling conditions for technology facilitation at Regional Dialogue on Technology Facilitation for Sustainable Development held in Pattaya, Thailand on May 18, 2014.

Session 3: Technology gaps and needs, and enabling conditions for technology facilitation

Following the discussion in session 2, this session will have presentations from national institutions involved in technology facilitation and resource persons on the topics. The Session also review experiences and challenges of setting up a network of national institutions involved in technology facilitation, in the context of the ambitious recommendation to create global technology facilitation.

Questions in this session include;
• What are the gaps and needs that the relevant institutions are trying to address and how?
• What are the roles of key sectors – public institutions, academic institutions and the private sector – in building multifaceted, multi-layered partnership for acquisition, development and deployment of technology?
• What are the lessons learnt from the past experience – obstacles and opportunities in technology facilitation?
• What are the opportunities and challenges in scaling up the current instructional linkage to regional / global level?

Moderator: Michael Williamson, Head, ESCAP Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (APCTT)

Presentations:
• Raju Laudari, Assistant Director, Nepal Alternative Energy Promotion Center (AEPC), Nepal
• Vipin Kumar, Director/Chief Innovation Officer, National Innovation Foundation-India
• Agung Hendriadi, Director, Indonesian Center for Agricultural Technology Assessment and Development (ICATAD), Indonesia
• Artie Ng,Principal Lecturer & Programme Director, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Discussants
• Sivanappan Kumar, Coordinator for Energy Field of Study, School of Environment, Resources & Development, AIT
• Vinish Kathuria, Associate Professor, SJM School of Management, Indian institute of Technology Bombay Country perspectives