Francisco Sercovich

Francisco Sercovich is currently Senior Policy Advisor to the Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Vienna, Austria. Formerly Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Institute for International Development; Visiting Professor at the Université de Québèc a Montréal; consultant and advisor to ECLAC, IADB, IDRC, ILO, OAS, OECD, UNCTAD, UNCTC, UNESCO, The World Bank and various Latin American governments on technological policy, industrialization and trade integration. Five books and over 100 articles and reports on technology, trade and industrialization, with focus on technological policy and dynamic comparative advantage. Latest book: China in the WTO - The Birth of a New Catching Up Strategy (Palgrave/Macmillan, December 2002, edited with C. Magariños and Long Yongtu). Graduated in economics at Buenos Aires University; Ph.D. in Development Economics at Sussex University (ascribed to both, the Science Policy Research Unit and the Institute of Development Studies). Contributed original research pieces to three major programs on technological development in developing countries (IDRC, ECLAC/IADB and World Bank). Published early reports on international technology diffusion and related policies (including The Channels and Mechanisms for the Transfer of Technology from Developed to Developing Countries, UNCTAD, Geneva 1971 (with C. Cooper) and The International Patent System and Developing Countries, SPRU, Sussex, 1974 (with C. Cooper and C. Freeman). Managed research programs and published on trade integration, technology exports from developing countries and biotechnology policy in developing countries. Contributed to the fields of competitiveness policy benchmarking (Competition and the World Economy - Comparing Developing Policies in the Developing and Transition Economies, Elgar, UK, 1999, with collaborators), multilateral technical cooperation (Reforming the United Nations, Klewer, 2001, edited with collaborators) and development (Gearing Up for The New Development Agenda, UN, Vienna/New York, 2002, edited with C. Magariños).