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
…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
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
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
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
A look at the pandemic through the lens of ‘Market Menagerie’. How far does popular discussion take us in facing Covid-19?
Meet the members of the ‘ideas bank’ of the G20, Task Force 1: the official engagement group bringing leading think tanks and research centers together worldwide.
The topic? you guessed it: Healthcare Diplomacy, now practically a household term. Before Covid, this was specialist terrain mostly narrowed to clinicians and virologists. The pandemic has made it necessary to have wider public debates on sustained health and wellbeing and the new diplomacy of healthcare.
Smita Srinivas was invited by Sattva and convened some of the world’s best thinkers in this special issue of Prayas on healthcare systems in their wider social protection context.