- UNECA@60 Innovation Challenge Award (2018)
- Resource person/trainer on innovation policies and governance (2016-2019)
- Invited reviewers of SANBio innovation commercialization projects -nutrition (2016-2019)
- Technical Advisory Committee member of Bio-Innovate, ILRI, Nairobi, Kenya (2010 to 2015)
- Leader of NEPAD’s ASTII Work Package 3: Improving innovation measurement in Africa (2013 to 2019)
- Member of the Technical Committee for the Review of the African Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of Action (2011-2012).
- Member of the Technical Committee tasked to develop the Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa 2024 (STISA 2024) adopted by Heads of States in 2015.
- Requested by the Government of Tanzania to train of Heads of Institutions and R&D Managers on technology development, transfer and commercialization (2012).
- Expert advisor to the Broad-based Economic Empowerment Initiative of ILO, Ministry of Trade and Industry and Zambia Development Agency (on Business Incubators and Vendor Development) (2008-2009).
- Fellow of The World Academy of Art and Science (since 2006).
- Member of the International Advisory Panel of the Combat Diseases of Poverty Consortium (CDPC, Ireland – 2008 – 13).
- Included in “Who is Who in the World, 2007 to date” a collection of selected biographies of accomplished individuals.
- Chair of the research and graduate committee for the Dept. of Chemistry, University of Zambia (2000).
- Managing partner, founder and director, AEH (since 2017), Lusaka, Zambia. (www.aehglobal.com)
- Managing partner, founder and director, SEMA Services in support of informal and small businesses (since 2017), Lusaka, Zambia. (www.semakazi.com)
- The founder and promoter; African Biomedical Engineering Consortium (since 2012).
- Managing partner, founder, AEH with a focus on innovative and entrepreneurial youths and start-ups (since 2006), Lusaka, Zambia.
- The founder of Africa Technology Development Forum (www.atdforum.org) to expand access to African scientific and technological knowledge (since 2004), Geneva, Switzerland.
- The founder of the Zambian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (1996), Lusaka Zambia.
- Currently leading the team developing Origin – Pan-African Research and Innovation Labs in the five regions of Africa
- Helped AEH develop the Business and Marketing Plan 2019-2024 for the Southern African Network for Biosciences (SANBio) of NEPAD (ZAR238,390) by CSIR.
- Helped raise CA$464,200 that supported youth-led start-ups, emerging entreprenuers and innovators in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe through seed funding, entrepreneurship training and mentorship support under the CultiAF-Expanding Business Opportunities for African Youth in Agricultural Value Chains in Southern Africa programme supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, and the Australian International Food Security Centre (AIFSC) (2015-2017).
- Helped raise over $3 million in funding for innovation measurements through the African Science, Technology and Innovation and Indicators (ASTII) initiative led by NEPAD as a co-applicant.
- Awarded £13,000 funding as a co-applicant by ESRC Global Challenge Research Fund – Impact Acceleration Account for the launch of the African Innovation Research Network (AIRNET, httpss://www.aehglobal.com/african-innovation-research-network/) (2016).
- Awarded £9,980 research grant by British Academy and Leverhulme for a project on the use of ICTs by SMEs in Africa (2013-2014, with Y.K. Tang and S. Young, University of Glasgow)
- Helped raise $312,000 for Engineering Expertise for Improved Healthcare in Africa (2011-2015).
- Helped raise $500,000 to support young entrepreneurs in Zambia via AEH (2007-2009).
- Awarded the Africa Careers Award ($32,000) by Rockefeller Foundation for post-doctoral research on drug resistance in malaria (2002).
- Awarded the Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Biotechnology and Globalisation ($31,000) (Harvard University/Rockefeller Foundation) (2001).
- Awarded for the best presentation by a young scientist ($500) at the first FASBMB conference (1996).
- UNECA (2020) Towards a Nanotechnology Future for Africa: Trends, Impacts and Opportunities (httpsss://www.uneca.org/towards-african-nanotechnology-future)
- UNECA (2018) Towards achieving the Africa Union’s recommendations of expenditure of 1% of GDP on research and development, Policy Brief No. ECA/18/004
- UNECA (2017) Innovating for better health: Building biomedical devices innovation capacity in Africa. ECA Policy Brief No. ECA/18/004.
- UNECA (2014) African Science, Technology and Innovation Review.
- UNECA (2013) National experiences in the transfer of publicly funded technologies in Africa.
- UNECA (2012) Assessing African Innovation Policy Environment: A Survey of Ghana, Kenya and Zambia.
- UNECA (2010) A technology resurgence? Africa in the global flows of technology. United Nations
- UNCTAD (2006) A Case Study of the Salmon Industry in Chile, Transfer of technology for the successful integration of developing countries in the global economy, UNCTAD/ITE/IPC/2005/6
- UNCTAD (2005) Taxation and technology transfer: Key Issues, Transfer of technology for the successful integration of developing countries in the global economy, UNCTAD/ITE/IPC/2005/2
- UNCTAD (2005) A case study of the electronics industry in Thailand, Transfer of technology for the successful integration of developing countries in the global economy, UNCTAD/ITE/IPC/2005
- UNCTAD (2004) Biotechnology Promise: Capacity-building for Participation of Developing Countries in the Bioeconomy, UNCTAD/ITE/IPC/2004/2
- UNCTAD (2004) History of Technology. “In; Beyond Conversional Wisdom: An intellectual history of UNCTAD 1964-2004” 165-182, UNCTAD/EDM/2004/4
- UNCTAD (2004) Facilitating Technology Transfer; A survey of Home Country Measures, UNCTAD/ITE/IPC/2004/5
- UN GA (2003) Impact of New Biotechnologies, with particular attention to sustainable development, including food security, health and economic productivity, Report for the Secretary General to the UN General Assembly, A/58/76
- Juma, C. and Konde, V. (2002) The New Bioeconomy: Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology in Developing Countries, UNCTAD/DITC/TED/12.
- Tang, Y.K. and Konde, V. (2021), “Which resource acquisition acts drive growth of informal firms? Evidence from Zambia”, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development,Atwine, D., Karanja, Y. W., Ahluwalia, A., De Maria, C., Assefa, D., Konde, V., Khundi, E., Makobore, P. N., Moshi, M., Nzomo, M., Rushdi, M. A., Ssekitoleko, R. T. and Madete, J. (2020) “Nurturing next-generation biomedical engineers in Africa: The impact of Innovators’ Summer Schools”, Global Health Innovation, 3(2). doi: 10.15641/ghi.v3i2.1004.
- Yee Kwan Tang and Victor Konde (2020) Differences in ICT use by entrepreneurial micro-firms: evidence from Zambia, Information Technology for Development, 26:2, 268-291, DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2019.1684871
- Abdallah, S. El-Helepi, M., Konde, V., and Pesce, O. (2017). Selected Sectoral Policies and Structural Transformation in Africa. In Carlos Lopes, Abdalla Hamdok and Adam Elhiraika (eds). Macroeconomic Policy Framework for Africa’s Structural Transformation, 217-262. Springer International Publishing.
- Konde, V., Kapoor, S.A.A. and Thorsteinsdoottir, H. (2012). Promoting the African Renaissance? South Africa’s health biotechnology collaborations with Sub-Saharan African countries. In Thorsteinsdottir, H. (ed.) South-South collaboration in Health Biotechnology, 203- 213. Academic Foundation, IDRC.
- Chavula, H.K. and Konde, V. (2011). Innovation and Industrial Development in Africa. ATDF Journal, 8(3/4), 3-12.Thorsteinsdóttir H., Melon, C.C, Ray, M., Chakkalackal, S., Li, M., Cooper, J.E., Chadder, J., Saenz, W.T., de Souza Paula, M.C., Ke, W., Lexuan Li, Madkour, M.A., Aly, S., El-Nikhely, N., Chaturvedi, S., Konde, V., Daar, A.S., Singer, P.A, (2010). South-South entrepreneurial collaboration in health biotech. Nature Biotechnology, 28(5), 407-416.
- Wiersma J., Stuthman D., Fan D., Duvick D., Konde V. (2010) Land: Hybrid Corn. In: Comstock G.L. (eds) Life Science Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. httpsss://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8792-8_16Melon, C.C., Monali, R., Chakkalackal, S., M., Cooper, J.E., Chadder, J., Sáenz, T.W, Paula, M.C., Ke, W., Li, L., Madkour, M.A., Aly, S. Adly, N, Chaturvedi, S., Konde, V., Daar, A.S., Singer, P. A., Thorsteinsdóttir, H. (2009). A survey of South-North health biotech collaboration. Nature Biotechnology, 27, 229 – 232.
- Konde, V. (2007). The Role of Linker Units in Building Academia-Industry-Government Relations: The Cases of Internet in Zambia and Genomics in Brazil. Asia-Pacific Tech Monitor (UNESCAP), 24 -30.
- Konde, V. and Juma, C. (2007). Governance of Industrial Biotechnology: Opportunities and Participation of Developing Countries. In UNIDO (ed.) Industrial Biotechnology and Biomass Utilisation, 107- 120, Vienna, United Nations.
- Konde, V. (2005). Industrial biotechnology applications and food security in Africa. International Journal of Biotechnology, 7, 95-112.
- Konde, V. (2006).Expanding Healthcare in Africa: Current Status and Possible Options. ATDF Journal, 2 (3), 12-20.
- Konde, V. (2006). The Biotechnology Revolution and its Implication for Food Security in Africa. ATPS Special Paper Series No. 28.
- Juma, C. and Konde, V. (2005). Developing Countries in the Global Bioeconomy: The Case of Industrial Biotechnology. In: Ed. Meléndez-Ortiz, R. and Sánchez, V (eds.), Trading in Genes: Development Perspectives on Biotechnology, Trade and Sustainability. EarthScan Publishing, UK
- Konde, V. (2004). Internet Development in Zambia; A Triple Helix of Government-University-Partners. International Journal of Technology Management, 27, 440-451.
- Juma, C. and Konde, V. (2002). Industrial Applications for Biotechnology; Opportunities for Developing Countries. Environment, 44, 23-35.
- Juma, C., Fang, K., Honca, D., Huete-Perez, J., Konde, V., Lee, S.H., Arenas, J., Ivinson, A., Robinson, H. and Singh, S. (2001). Global governance of technology: meeting the needs of developing countries. International Journal of Technology Management, 22, 629-655.
- Konde, V. and Majiwa, P.O.A. (2000). Alterations in gene transcription patterns associated with development of drug resistance in Trypanosoma congolense. ICPTV 2, 15-16.
- Majiwa, P.O.A., Konde, V., de Souza, S. and Maina, M. (2000) Molecular approaches to the identification of DNA markers for drug resistance in Trypanosoma congolense. ICPTV 2, 14-15
- Tang, Y.K., and Konde V. (2019) Resource Acquisition and Informal Firm Growth: Evidence from Zambia. Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) 2019, Newcastle, UK (forthcoming).
- Tang, Y.K., Konde, V., Cheng, C.T. (2018) Enhancing the performance of ICT Use by Micro-Firms: The Impact of Learning and Innovativeness. International Council of Small Business World Congress, 27-29 June 2018, Taipei.
- Tang, Y.K., Konde, V., Young, S. (2014) Use of electronic platforms for business development and entrepreneurship in Africa. International Council of Small Business (ICSB) World Conference Proceedings, 11-14 June 2014, Dublin, Ireland.
- Konde, V., and Tang, Y.K. (2014) Beyond Access: ICT Use in Business by SMEs in Ghana and Zambia. IST-Africa Conference Presentation, 6-9 May 2014, Mauritius.
- Konde, V. (2008)Characteristics and Drivers of International Health Biotechnology Collaborations in Africa, Biovision2008, Alexandria, Egypt.
- Konde, V. (2007)IPR, FDI and the Pharmaceutical Industry in Zambia, Paper prepared for the Investment Forum, Lusaka, Zambia.
- Konde, V. (2003) Biotechnology revolution and its implication for food security in Africa. Discussion paper. The ATPS Annual Conference 11-15 November 2003, Maseru, Lesotho.
- Juma, C. and Konde, V. (2002) Technical change and sustainable development; Developing country perspectives. Presented at the Annual meeting of American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), Boston, MA.
- Juma, C. and Konde, V. (2002) Technical change and sustainable development, Discussion paper, CID, Harvard University.
- Juma, C. and Konde, V. (2002) Industrial Biotechnology and International Trade: Opportunities for developing countries, Discussion paper, CID, Harvard University.
- Konde, V. and Majiwa, P.O.A. (2000), Physical mapping and sequencing of the histone H2B gene of T. congolense. The Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Society Conference of Zimbabwe.
- Konde, V. and Majiwa, P.O.A. (1999). Search for genetic markers for drug resistance in T. congolense. The workshop of EU-INCO-DC concerted Action on management of drug resistance, ILRI,
- Konde, V. and Majiwa, P.O.A. (1999). Application of RDA to study two isogenic clones of T. congolense that differ in their response to drug therapy. ISCTRC conference.
- Konde, V., Mbawa, Z.A. and Lovelace, C.E. (1996). Purification and comparison of the activity of cysteine proteases from T. brucei and T. congolense. The FASBMB conference.