The Ethiopian Triple Helix Association (ETHA), officially established since 1998, is a non-governmental, voluntary organization registered with the appropriate government office.ETHA has its roots in the Triple Helix Initiative originally launched in Ethiopia by Dr. Duri Mohammed, past President of Addis Ababa University and ex-Minister of the Ethiopian government, having held the portfolio for Planning and Economic Development. More recently, Dr, Duri was Ethiopia’s Permanent Representative of to the United Nations, based in New York. Today, Dr. Duri is Chairman of the Board of ETHA.
The Association has as its main objectives the following activities:
Assisting institutions of higher learning and manufacturing industries to raise their productivity through research and development by working in unison.
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Strengthening the role played by institutions of higher learning in the development of the country.
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Organising symposiums, seminars and workshops in order to bolster the role of institutions of higher learning and manufacturing industries to speed national development.
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Supporting on-going research in order to enhance productivity.
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Assisting in various ways to bring to end-users results obtained through research and development.
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Encouraging organizations and individuals that are engaged in research leading to the building of improved technology for raising productivity.
In order to further the above goals, ETHA organised the Ethiopia Triple Helix Conference in collaboration with Professor Henry Etzkowitz (of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne Business School and the foremost exponent of the Triple Helix concept) and IKED (the International Organisation for Knowledge Economy and Enterprise Development, based in Malmö, Sweden).
ETHA is currently housed at UNECA’s offices in Addis Ababa.
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Mr. Abdurahman Ame
Managing Director
P.O. Box 5527
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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+251 911 34 78 62 |
E-mail: ethio_triplehelix@ethionet.et
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 POPULATION:
There has been a steady increase in the population growth rate since 1960. Based on 1984 census data, population growth was estimated at about 2.3 percent for the 1960-70 period, 2.5 percent for the 1970-80 period, and 2.8 percent for the 1980-85 period.
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Population projections compiled in 1988 by the Central Statistical Authority (CSA) projected a 2.83 percent growth rate for 1985-90 and a 2.96 percent growth rate for 1990-95. This would result in a population of 57.9 million by 1995. Estimated annual growth for 1995-2000 varied from 3.03 percent to 3.16 percent. Population estimates ranged from 67.4 million to 67.8 million by the year 2000. The population in Ethiopia today is 74 million. The CSA projected that Ethiopia 's population could range from 104 million to 115 million by the year 2015. The International Development Association (IDA) provided a more optimistic estimate. Based on the assumption of a gradual fertility decline, such as might be caused by steady economic development without high priority given to population and family planning programs, the population growth rate might fall to about 2.8 percent per annum in 1995-2000 and to 2.1 percent in 2010-15, resulting in a population of 93 million in 2015. |
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COUNTRY DESCRIPTION:
Today, Ethiopia is a country which is old beyond imagination: it dates back over 3,000 years, previously as Abyssinia, encompassing over 80 different Ethnic groups with their own language, culture and traditions. |
Ethiopia is a land of natural contrasts, from the tops of the rugged Simien Mountains, one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites, to the depths of the Danakil Depression, at 120 meters below sea level one of the lowest dry land points on earth. The cornucopia of natural beauty that blesses Ethiopia offers an astonishing variety of landscapes: Afro-Alpine highlands soaring to around 4,300 metres, moors and mountains, the splendour of the Great Rift Valley, white-water rivers, savannah teeming with game, giant waterfalls, dense and lush jungle... the list is endless.
The country's many national parks enable the visitor to enjoy its scenery and wildlife, conserved in natural habitats, and offer opportunities for travel adventure unparalleled in Africa.
With a population of more than two million people, Addis Ababa is not only the political capital but also the economic and social nerve-centre of Ethiopia. The city is situated in the foothills of the 3,000 meters high Entoto Mountains and rambles pleasantly across many wooded hillsides and gullies cut through with fast flowing streams.
Addis Ababa is as cosmopolitan as any of the world's great metropolises, and the architecture is as varied as the city itself. There is no designated 'city centre' because, until very recently, there was no urban planning. Addis Ababa simply grew in a natural, organic way, and its present appearance reflects this unforced and unstructured evolution.
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EDUCATION:
Higher education is increasingly being recognised as a critical aspect of the development process, especially with the growing policy awareness about the role of science and technology in economic renewal. |
While primary and secondary education have been at the focus of donor-community attention for decades, higher education have been viewed as essential to development only in more recent years. Today’s economic circumstances make higher education a more compelling need in Ethiopia than it has ever been.
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Conference to launch a Program to Transform University-Industry-Government Relations in Ethiopia
Addis Ababa, 29th – 31th May 2006
The boundaries between public and private, science and technology, university and industry are in a state of flux. Universities, firms and public authorities are assuming tasks that were formerly the province of other sectors. Shaping these relations in a fruitful manner increasingly requires adjustment in a range of policies, including science and technology, industrial policy, education, regional policy, tax regimes and so on. University-industry-government relations can be considered a triple helix of evolving networks of communication. This “triple helix” is more complex than the mutual interactions between the “double helices”, on which it rests. Hence, a brief summary of this process is useful for helping to conceptualize and assess the present status of university -industry-government relations.
This topic is normally conceived of in the context of developed countries. Today, however, the developing world faces both new opportunities and new barriers in development. The triple helix, combined with the issues associated with better functioning innovation systems and more dynamic clusters, can serve as an important instrument for enabling development along new and more prosperous paths.
Ethiopia – a country with great historical roots and cultural strengths but also marked by severe resource constraints and development needs – is a proper location to launch a programme implementing the principles of the Triple Helix, how to exploit and upgrade the linkages between academia, government and business.
To this effect a meeting was organised under the auspices of the Ethiopian Ministry of Education, with support from the Swedish International Development Agency, which brought together distinguished researchers, policy makers, business representatives and practitioners. The participants came from Ethiopia, other African countries, Europe, Asia, North and South America. From the host country, participants included senior policy makers, university leaders and managers of private sector and business entities. At the event, presentations were made about learning in new ways between advanced and developed countries, and between developing societies. Contributions from the international arena ware made amongst others by; technology transfer practitioners; entrepreneurial education experts; incubator directors; academics with experience in adapting the entrepreneurial university model; S&T policy analysts and ”Triple Helix” researchers and policymakers.
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The organisers of the Triple Helix Conference to launch the programme to transform University-Industry-Government relations in Ethiopia gratefully recognise support from:
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