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Meeting No: 2514 022 4235
Password: innovation

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Abstract

Innovation is the main determinant of long-term economic development. Thus, strengthening National Innovation System (NIS) could lead to sustained growth in developing countries. Some countries viz South Korea and Taiwan achieved sustained growth through the adoption and adaptation of technologies through the NIS. In this webinar the speaker shall discuss the NIS and Technological Innovation System (TIS) in Sri Lanka with progress, weakness and best practice for sustained growth and shall summarise some policy suggestions for sustained growth through NIS in Sri Lanka and for other developing countries.

About the Speaker

Sanika Sulochani Ramanayake is working as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Statistics in the University of Kelaniya. Before this appointment, she was a senior researcher at Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research Institute, a visiting lecturer at General Sir John Kottelawela Defence University, University of Colombo, and University of Vocational Technologies in Sri Lanka. She is currently the Deputy Director of the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka; Chief Editor of the Journal of Social Statistics (Which is an international Journal for academic staff members, White listed from the University of Kelaniya), and Co-Editor of the Journal of Gender Studies Sri Lanka (Also an international Journal).

Earlier, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, affiliated with the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai (from 2016–2018), and a Postdoctoral researcher at Seoul National University and Inha University (from September 2013 to February 2016) under the Social Science Korea (SSK) programme.

Her research interests are Sustain Growth & Economic Development, International Trade & Export Growth, SMEs, Middle Income Trap, Currency exchange rate, Women Empowerment & Gender Gap, Gender Inequality & Income Inequality, Remittances, Migration & Development, Brain Drain, and Regional Corporations: Area studies – East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa, Country Studies – Korea, China, Japan, Mauritius, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Taiwan, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Thailand, South Africa, Congo, and Ethiopia.