TCLab Editor

Giving shape to the Future

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In 2008, Markku Sotarauta and Smita Srinivas peered into the future as best they could and published Sotarauta, M., & Srinivas, S. (2006). Co-evolutionary policy processes: Understanding innovative economies and future resilience. Futures, 38(3), 312-336. In real life, the conversation took a few years and emails to sort ideas and merge a literature on institutions, … Read more

When is Industry “Sustainable” and When are People Healthy?

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Srinivas, S. (forth.). When is Industry ‘Sustainable’? The Economics of Institutional Variety in a Pandemic, Special Issue (Lee, Kastelli, Mamica Eds.) Industrial Policy for Sustainable Development, Review of Evolutionary Political Economy. Cases analysed: Oxygen, Ayurveda, India, Covid-19 Photo by Denes Kozma on Unsplash Abstract Industrialising economies today are characterised by a multi-level heterogeneity ofcustoms, norms, … Read more

Patna 2023: For India, From India, with love and ambition

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Patna, India

…and possibly some brickbats. TCLab debates will be part of a wider India-focused invitation-only development conference hosted by the Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI, Patna). We expect a lively intellectual conversation on current context and future, with economists, urbanists, agriculturalists, and others. Photo by Sidhant Shreshtha on Unsplash

Pandemic productivity: New publications out

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The TCLab Publishing section lists several new edited books, book chapters, journal articles, and new technical reports. We are adding several more to the website pages as fast as we can. Many of these new contributions address the technology and industrial foundations of the pandemic, sustainable development, or social policy in a dynamic context of … Read more

Can Heuristics free Microeconomics and Us?

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There’s some hand-waving that goes on in microeconomics when it describes production. How do firms know how and how much to make? Besides firms, how else is production organised in national systems? Are production vector sets useful? Building on Nelson and Winter’s (1984) early insights on some of the challenges of traditional microeconomics, this article … Read more

Smita Srinivas joins Innovation and Development’s new Editorial Board

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Serious scholars and practitioners in development must read and contribute to this journal. Established over a decade ago through the Globelics network focused on learning, innovation, capabilities and systems, this journal aims high. Economics and business journals may claim to study innovation, but an important test is an innovation’s developmental impact. How do we view … Read more

The False “War on Cancer” and its consequences

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During Covid-19, a great deal of rethinking of economics was underway across the globe. The invited essay for Cancer Control 2021, heralds a conversation between different disciplines and professionals. Like many complex problems, cancer needs new economic approaches which take seriously a nation’s industrial foundations and its gaps in regulation. This evolutionary, institutional economics structures … Read more

End of Year Keynotes 2022

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November 2022 provides an opportunity to engage two diverse audiences in innovation and development. The first keynote, Nov 15th, at the Open University UK, one of the world’s largest universities by student enrollment, and a unique digital footprint in addition to its rising research profiles, will have senior administrators, faculty, and students interested in the … Read more

“The War on Cancer”: First, Update the Economics

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On November 18, at London Global Cancer Week (LGCW) 2021, the India team of the Innovation for Cancer Care in Africa project (ICCA) presented the context of the India economics and policy research and the need to discard the metaphor of the so-called “War on Cancer”. The panel that followed included cancer specialists of different … Read more