Dates: Multiple Dates
Duration: 2 days
Level: Executive
Delivery: Face-to-face & Online
Certificate of Completion from Queen Mary University of London
Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfer
Delivered by Professor John Adams and Professor Allam Ahmed
Certificate of attendance from Queen Mary University of London
The course provides active participation in theoretical and policy debate about Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Technology Transfer (TT) by focusing on what matters to investors. Using the main themes arising from this question we will develop a set of guiding principles for the establishment of good practices that any Investment Promotion Agency (IPA) needs to adopt. These include planning stages through to self-evaluation and the inter-connections between the IPA and other key Government agencies and Departments. The course will also provide the fundamentals and better understanding of the concept and practice of TT with several examples from developing countries including the UK, USA, India & Africa.
The course is primarily practice based with significant number of theoretical concepts and it will be delivered by two leading international experts on Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfer.
Learning Outcomes:
- Recent global developments in FDI
- Barriers to FDI and domestic investment
- Evaluating the host economy environment for FDI
- IPA’s and Good Investment Promotion Practice
- Demonstrate understanding of the determinants of FDI & criteria motivating investors in a specific location.
- Identify the policies most conducive to FDI and evaluate the investment environment of a given country.
- Maximise impact of Investment Promotion Agency
- Next steps – developing a modern IPA for a given country
- Technology transfer
- Technology diffusion
- Technical change and productivity gap
- TT key success factors
- Transfer models
- Transfer linkages
Program Structure:
- The programme will be facilitated by the best experts from all over the world; it will provide participants within the public and private sectors with the best scientific and management solutions to implement effective public policy in their organisations.
- There will be an activity or set of activities for each session. These will be designed to help you engage with the introduction to the theories explored within the masterclass.
- Your tutor will be on hand to guide you through the programme and will expect you to bring personal experience and reflection on the topics covered.
- Group work will be required for participants to engage in the programme. Such activity allows participants to embed the new knowledge within their experience through active discussion and challenge.
DAY ONE
Arrival refreshment, welcome and registration
General introduction to recent global developments in FDI and TT
Barriers to FDI and evaluate a country’s investment environment
Technology diffusion, technical change and productivity gap
Group exercise and personal reflection
DAY TWO
Arrival refreshment and reflection on day 1
Investment Promotion Agency (IPA) good practice and impact
TT key success factors, models and linkages
Developing a modern IPA and TT agency for your country
Personal reflection, certificates, and next steps
Who is this course for?
- The course covers materials for all levels from supervisory through to senior level.
- Government officials: minsters, undersecretaries, directors, etc.
- Private sector: CEOs, managers, and directors.
- Experienced managers who have significant futures-oriented management responsibilities, and who are interested in reflecting on their own experience and discovering new ideas.
- Academics including vice chancellors, deans, heads of departments, researchers and students who are interested in leadership and in being part of an engaging educational experience that explore the challenges and opportunities that face organizations.
- Youth, NGOs (voluntary) and civil society groups (public).
Benefits for Employers
In addition to the comprehensive training and educational opportunities for participants, the course also offers great networking opportunities for participants and businesses. Moreover, the course participants will have the opportunity to showcase their role in different fields with their employers. After completion of the course, participants (supported by their tutor with additional fee) will be given the opportunity to write a report describing what they have learnt and what is particularly relevant to their employers. The report will focus on one single perspective or to build a hybrid model that will help their employers to achieve their strategic and tactical goals. This will help reassure the employers of the benefits of the programme and help consolidate managers’ understanding.