At the Asian Development Research Institute conference, a mixed disciplinary team focused on India’s development over the next 30 years. Video coverage of the debates is here, Day 1 and Day 2 (Smita Srinivas presentation).
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
…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
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
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
“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 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.
“Consequently, as technological advances grow and equipment and methods increasingly specialist and narrow, economics ceases to be the simple cost calculus of cost–benefit analysis, neither a market failure threshold for state intervention, nor indeed one that can rely on equilibrium analysis in fast-moving technological domains.”
