Professor Joanna Chataway

Professor of Biotechnology and Development

Joanna’s research and consultancy experience includes work on science & technology capacity building, North-South Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), innovation and development. She has carried out several studies looking at these issues in relation to agricultural and health related biotechnology and has also researched risk regulation, perception and management of risk of biotechnology. She has worked in Central America, India, Southern Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.

Joanna is Co-Director of the ESRC Innogen Centre for research on innovation in the life sciences, which conducts research on the social and economic aspects of life science innovation. She is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) for two INNOGEN centre projects investigating technology and knowledge flows in biotechnology and genomics between North and South and PI for another project funded by the ESRC Science in Society Programme looking at capacities to manage risks of agricultural biotechnology in several African countries.

Exploring the possibilities and limitations of new types of engagement between private and public sectors in bridging the divide between modern science and technology, innovation and the majority of the world's population. Currently involved in a range of research projects looking at the relationships between biotechnology and genomics north-south public private partnerships (PPPs), S&T capacity building, innovation and development more generally.

Joanna’s teaching activity has spanned the range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses that DPP produces. She is currently deputy chair of TU875 War, Intervention and Development.

Innovations for Pro-Poor Growth

Summary

A burgeoning area of interest for DPP members is the issue of how innovative activity can promote and support entrepreneurship in order to raise the income, welfare and agency of the poorest in society. Initial ideas for the project and its conceptual base are available at www.ipg.open.ac.uk. This project currently...

Product Development Partnerships

Summary

An Innogen funded project, this project is currently in its Third Phase having first started in 2001. This current phase of the project is concerned with questions of partnership objectives, inputs, process and outputs; and the connections between these. We are particularly interested in knowing whether product development partnerships for new health tech...

Scientific capacity building in Africa

Summary

This project brings together a series of commissioned pieces of work with on-going academic study of what it means to build scientific capacity in Africa and the implications of this for innovation and health goals set by governments, funders and research institutes. In addition, working with our partner in Kenya, the African Centre for Technology Studies...

Health innovation for the world's poor: Who are the players and what is the game?

Joanna Chataway, Rebecca Hanlin, Joyce Tait and David Wield

A variety of public private partnering arrangements and innovative financing mechanisms has begun to change the neglected disease landscape over the last decade. How significant are these public-private partnership (PPP) arrangements? Are these players likely to endure? Do they deserve the continued support of develo...

Health innovation for the world's poor: Who are the players and what is the game?

Joanna Chataway, Rebecca Hanlin, Joyce Tait and David Wield

Innogen's Perspective on Health Innovation

Prof Joanna Chataway and Prof Maureen Mackintosh discuss Innogen's research on health innovation in developing counties.

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