Celebrating 20 years of Globelics

https://unu-merit-eu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUofu6vrTkpHtx79WnVuBA8RjiRxQF4aqFJ On April 1st 2023, Globelics@20 concludes its year-long celebration with a seminar on Innovation for Inclusive Development. Please join us. Two decades of hard work by the wider Globelics leadership is to be celebrated. Smita Srinivas has had involvement with this community as scholar, and serves as one of the Editors of the journal … Read more

Analyzing Innovation and Regulation in MDDs

March 1st: Looking forward to presenting recent work on learning, regulation, and innovation in Medical Devices and Diagnostics (MDDs) to the MPA students of UCL’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Public Policy department (STEaPP).

Giving shape to the Future

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?

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

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

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

Smita Srinivas joins Innovation and Development’s new Editorial Board

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

End of Year Keynotes 2022

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