Allam Ahmed

Research

Allam research philosophy is central to both his teaching and broader academic goal of generating and sharing ideas and transmitting them within and across the student, policy, academic and business communities with whom he is engaged. He has published widely on how knowledge and technology transfer (TT) contribute to SD and competitiveness in the developing countries (DCs). He has produced more than 120 publications, including fourteen books, numerous articles on knowledge and technology transfer and management, sustainable development (SD), marketing and policy reports on sustainability and competitiveness. He serves on the Editorial Board of eight international journals in S&T, KM, Business, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Management, Strategy and International Business, and reviewer for Oxford University Press, Emerald Publishing, Inderscience Publishers, Journal of World Business; Management Research News; Journal of Development Studies; Science, Technology & Human Values; International Journal of Technology Management; Management Decision; International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation; Research Policy; etc.

Allam main areas of research focus on: (a) globalisation and competitiveness. This cover topics relating to marketing; strategic management; entrepreneurship; and government macroeconomic policies and (b) the role of science and technology in achieving sustainable development (SD). This covers topics relating to marketing and commercialisation of technological products and innovation; knowledge and technology transfer and management; productivity gap analysis & modeling; SD; industry & sustainability; and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). His work is distinctive within the wider academic community as it focuses on the poor (and some of the poorest) nations. This has led Allam into various collaborations with different distinguished scholars across the UK and the world and to various invitations to guest-edit journal special issues and to give key note speaches at international conferences.

Allam intellectual contribution is perhaps best illustrated by the following recent example of published work.

"The European Union as a Model of International Cooperation in Science, Technology and Sustainable Development", The British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 9(4), 2007: 654-669. In this article, co-authored with Doctor Josephine Stein, we assess European Union (EU) research policy as a stable, long-term form of organising international science and technology co-operation, and evaluate the prospects for transposing this model to co-operation with non-European developing countries (DCs) in the context of sustainable development. The article shows that the EU often neglects the capabilities for change within DCs. The European approach combines scientific objectives with common political, social, economic and environmental aims through a form of partnership based on dynamism, collective decision-making and the distribution of research responsibility. It is argued that the prevailing character of co-operation between Europe and DCs, which stresses the transfer of resources, does not adequately recognise the knowledge, capacity for innovation and valuable socio-cultural assets of partners within the developing world which will be essential to build the partnerships needed to sustain progress in this area. The article is first reviewed as one of the key documents consulted for a scoping study commissioned by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) on behalf of the International Forum of Research Donors for Development (IFORD), to provide an overview of donor support for research capacity building in Africa for its next five-year research strategy and 20-year Vision of development for poverty reduction; and secondly the article is cited in the Final Report by Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission, in the context of the follow-up to the Green Paper “The European Research Area: New Perspectives” adopted by the Commission on 04 April 2007.

Sustainable Development 

• West meet East: sharing the past and current experience to benefit the future. 
• Leadership, capacity building and sustainable development in contemporary Africa. 
• The critical role of capacity building in achieving sustainable development in Africa.
• Towards Epistemic Sovereignty: (Re)-thinking Development in a Changing Global Political Economy. 
• Food Security in Sudan: Policies and Strategies. 
• Managing science and technology for a sustainable future. 
• Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development in the 21st Century. 
• Global and  Local Resources in Achieving Sustainable Development. 
• Global Competitiveness, a Common Goal in a Digital Society
• Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development. 
• Understanding sustainable development and our future challenges. 
• Africa Can Escape Poverty. 
• Partnership for Sustainable Development: The Role of Academic Institutions and Societies in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals. 
• Tracking the Millennium Development Goals in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Africa and the international development challenges. 
• Africa and the international development challenges. 
• Can Africa reach the UN international Millennium Development Goals? 
• Challenges of sustainable development in Africa towards achieving the UN millennium development goals. 
• History shows that every civilised society has destroyed itself. How can Agriculture help to prevent this happening to ours? 

 Knowledge Management and Knowledge-Based Economy 

• Smart KM Model: an integrated knowledge management framework for organizational excellence. 
• Smart KM Model: the integrated knowledge management revolutionary approach for organisational excellence. 
• Transforming the United Arab Emirates into a knowledge-based economy: the role of science, technology and innovation.
• Building a knowledge-based economy in the Muslim world: The critical role of innovation and technological learning. 
• Sharing Knowledge Making a Difference: The Role of International Scientific Cooperation. 
• Managing Knowledge and Innovation in the 21st Century and the Roadmap to Sustainability in the Arab Countries. 
• Knowledge management as an enabler of change and innovation in Africa. 
• Managing knowledge and technology for sustainable development in Africa. 
• Managing knowledge in the 21st century and the roadmap to sustainability.

Science Technology and Innovation 

• Technological readiness in the United Arab Emirates towards global competitiveness. 
• Achieving sustainable development in Africa: science, technology and  innovation trajectory. 
• Bridging agricultural innovation to policy: challenges - strategies - policies. 
• The European Union as a model of international cooperation in science, technology and sustainable development. 
• A Comprehensive Solution to Compact Malaria in Sudan: Constraints & Challenges. 
• Science, Technology and Sustainability in the Middle East and North Africa. 
• Competitive Food Safety Program: The Case of Qatar. 
• Strengthening African universities' strategic role in knowledge and technology development: policies and practice from Sudan. 
• Challenges and opportunities of agricultural research in the Sudan. 
• Sustainable development and technology transfer opportunities in the Sudan. 
• Technological Transformation and Sustainable Development in Africa. 
• Strengthening African universities' role in technology development.
• Making technology work for the poor: strategies and policies for African sustainable development.
• Science and technology policy in a globalised economy: the case of developing countries. .
• Challenges of agricultural technology transfer and productivity increase in the Sudan. 
• Science, Technology and Sustainable Development; A World Review.
• Technological Transformation for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development in Developing Countries. 
• New approach to technology transfer: a case study of Sudan. 
• Technology adoption and productivity increase in Africa: Sudan case study. 
• Technology management in the Sudan: strategic and policy challenges. 
• Agricultural technology transfer in the Sudan: critique and policy implications. 
• Designing appropriate technology in rural Sudan - end user considerations and strategic change. 
• The impact of technology transfer upon the agricultural productivity gap in sub-Saharan Africa: a Sudanese case study. 
• The Productivity Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa - Case Study of Sudan. 
• Technology Transfer in Sudan. 
• New approach to technology transfer: a case study of Sudan. 
• Analyzing agricultural research effectiveness: the case of the Sudan agricultural research institutions.
• The case of technology transfer, agricultural transformation and policy reform in Sudan.
• Genetics: Questions and Answers. 

 ICTs and Open Access 

• Poverty reduction in the Arab world: the use of ICTs. 
• Building open access in Africa. 
• Inconsistency of food security information in Sudan.
• Managing Knowledge, Technology & Development in the Era of Information Revolution. 
• New partnership towards bridging the knowledge divide. .
• Open access towards bridging the digital divide: policies and strategies for developing countries.
• Challenges and opportunities of e-learning networks in Africa. 
• Open access publishing: opportunities and strategic challenges for developing countries. 
• Bridging the Divide: The Role of Technology and Trade. 
• Digital publishing & the new era of digital divide. 
• Digital publishing and the new technological dilemma for developing countries. 

Business and Management 

• Best practices of business incubators in developed and developing countries: the roadmap for the Arab countries.
• Entrepreneurship development in Africa: an overview. 
• African entrepreneurship in global contexts: enterprise solutions for sustainable development.
  The 13 key performance indicators for highly effective teams. 
• Achieving business excellence and competitiveness in the MENA Region. 
• Marketing of halal meat in the United Kingdom: supermarkets versus local shops.
• Business excellence and competitiveness in the Middle East and North Africa. 
• Effective management and change in Africa. 
• Human resource management in Sudan. 
• The impact of finance and funding on technology adoption in Africa. 
• International Business & Market Operations Handbook.
• Marketing of Dura (Sorghum) in Sudan.