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Mesopartner Blog
At Mesopartner, we are passionate about exploring complexity and driving meaningful change in territorial development, innovation, and economic systems. This blog is a space where we share our insights, experiences, and reflections drawn from our work across the globe. Whether you're a development practitioner, policy-maker, researcher, or simply curious about how systems thinking can inform more sustainable and inclusive development, we invite you to join the conversation. Here, we unpack ideas, showcase tools and methodologies, and offer thought-provoking perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of working in complex environments.
Digital Product Passport: A Game Changer for Textile Compliance
A recent project scoping mission to Pakistan highlighted how busily textile and garment exporters prepare for the upcoming EU regulations affecting their sector.

Christian Schoen
4 days ago
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New frontiers in quality infrastructure research
Quality infrastructure refers to the technical institutions supporting global trade while ensuring consumers can purchase safe, healthy, high-quality products and services.
In recent years, scientific interest in quality infrastructure (QI) has grown continuously. The Google Scholar results from 1997 to 2024 confirm this trend.

Dr. Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke
Apr 9
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Quality Infrastructure Training opportunities
The Quality Infrastructure (QI) landscape is rapidly evolving, and professionals in the field must keep up with the latest developments....

Dr. Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke
Dec 16, 2024
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Enhancing Quality Infrastructure for Medical Technologies in the EU: Precision, Safety, and Innovation
By Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke, Ozan Aykurt and Folker Spitzenberger The European Union is at the forefront of medical innovation, supported by...

Dr. Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke
Dec 13, 2024
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The Relationship Between Metrology Patents and Quality Infrastructure
As we continue our efforts to measure quality infrastructure (QI) development and improve QI data collection to understand QI’s contribution to economic growth, we turn our attention to metrology. We examined the relationship between the Global Quality Infrastructure Index (GQII) and the number of metrology patents filed to understand whether it would be a suitable proxy for metrology development.

Ann Ramkissoon
Nov 14, 2024
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Recalibrating Quality: The Role of Risk-Based Thinking
Risk-based thinking has emerged as a cornerstone of modern quality management and is simultaneously used in conformity assessment and market surveillance.

Dr. Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke
Oct 28, 2024
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Advancing the Global Quality Infrastructure: Key Insights and Trends from GQII 2023
The “GQII-Report 2023: Insights and Trends on Economies Using Metrology, Standards, Accreditation and Conformity Assessment Services” was published earlier this year using 2023 data. The GQII database and ranking integrate information on quality infrastructure (QI) in 185 economies. Each edition collects and analyses data on standardization, metrology, accreditation and conformity assessment activities.

Dr. Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke
Sep 24, 2024
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Photovoltaic: Quality, Safety, and Sustainability Challenges
<p>In a June 2024 Solar Energy Special, the Economist called solar energy generation the “least obtrusive revolution imaginable.”(The Economist 2024b) According to the International Solar Energy Society, solar power is on track to generate more electricity than all the world’s nuclear power … <a href="https://qi4d.org/2024/09/16/photovoltaic-quality-challenges-and-solutions-a-2024-overview/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a

Mesopartner
Sep 16, 2024
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Photovoltaic: Quality, Safety, and Sustainability Challenges
In a June 2024 Solar Energy Special, the Economist called solar energy generation the “least obtrusive revolution imaginable.”( The...

Christian Schoen
Sep 16, 2024
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Gender Perspective in Quality Infrastructure: A Pathway to Equality and Innovation (PART 2)
In a previous post, we discussed the importance and implications of incorporating a gender perspective into QI. We recommended using a framework tailored to the QI context to evaluate contribution levels and progress toward gender equality.

Dr. Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke
Jun 26, 2024
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Gender Perspective in Quality Infrastructure – A Pathway to Equality and Innovation (PART 1)
An analysis of crash and injury data collected by the National Automotive Sampling System Crashworthiness Data System between 1998 and 2015 in the United States, conducted by the University of Virginia, revealed a disturbing disparity: belted women are 73% more likely to be seriously injured in frontal crashes than men.

Dr. Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke
Jun 21, 2024
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Elevating Quality Infrastructure through Regulatory Impact Assessments
Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) is a systematic approach to critically assessing the positive and negative impacts of proposed and existing regulations by systematically examining different policy options and alternatives. It is the only tool for Good Regulatory Practice (GRP) and an evidence-based approach to policymaking.
krjonkheer
Jun 11, 2024
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Accreditation of private schemes: differentiator and source of credibility in various markets
In recent years, accreditation has grown, particularly for privately owned standards schemes.

Dr. Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke
Apr 29, 2024
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Global dialogue and benchmarking of quality infrastructure systems
Quality infrastructure (QI) systems differ between countries.

Dr. Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke
Apr 1, 2024
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Free online learning courses on introducing Quality Infrastructure
Quality infrastructure is a complex field with specialized terminology and technical details from various areas of expertise. Different institutions offer online learning courses for individuals to become familiar with quality infrastructure. In this blogpost, we will present and compare the QI introductory courses of PTB and UNIDO.

Dr. Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke
Mar 6, 2024
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Dematerialisation of accreditation data
Digitalisation of accreditation services

Dr. Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke
Aug 7, 2023
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Macroeconomic benefits of quality infrastructure
One reason for investing in Quality Infrastructure (QI) is its contribution to a country’s economic growth. QI enhances economic performance through several avenues, including opening markets, reducing entry barriers, promoting knowledge transfer and better management procedures, facilitating production along value chains, enabling economies of scale, and reducing adverse selection and asymmetric information (Gonçalves and Peuckert, 2011).

Ann Ramkissoon
Jun 10, 2023
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The contribution of quality infrastructure to the satisfaction of human needs
Quality infrastructure is not an end in itself. Instead, its raison d’être is to support companies in the production and trade of goods and services that are ultimately intended to contribute to the well-being of people.

Dr. Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke
May 2, 2023
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Can you study quality infrastructure at universities?
Quality infrastructure (QI) is a new field of knowledge that has yet to find its way into university teaching. But why should students study quality infrastructure? The following reasons speak in favour of acquiring knowledge about quality infrastructure:

Dr. Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke
Mar 13, 2023
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What do Regional Trade Agreements mean for quality infrastructure?
The number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) entering into force has steadily increased over the past two decades (see figure below). This continuous growth has been interpreted as a reaction to the Multilateral Trading System (MTS) crisis, which has raised concerns about the future of Quality Infrastructure.

Dr. Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke
Mar 6, 2023
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