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

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

Can Heuristics free Microeconomics and Us?

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

The False “War on Cancer” and its consequences

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

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