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).
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
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
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
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
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“At the moment, the market for a Covid-19 vaccine is, in principle, infinite and there has been all kinds of frantic activity to be the first to market. …It is really important to have some clarity on what types of markets are required and why.”
The more economics wanders into the domain of policy, the more evident it becomes that attention to inferences and judgement is worth the time.