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 changing nature of the international development and development studies effort. The talk titled “The Grand Arc of Development, 2050”, by Prof. Smita Srinivas, Visiting Professor and former Professorial Research Fellow at The Open University, will provoke new debate about development’s future and the changing role and responsibility of global universities. If you are interested in development, decolonisation, new thinking in economics and the social sciences, and the perceived history of development scholarship and its future, please join us.
The second talk is a plenary session for the 12th Asian Society for Innovation Conference, Bengaluru, India. “Leaders, Ladders, and Iterations”, by Prof. Srinivas, will engage the audience with the history and practical choices of innovations and the critical nature of innovation in development. Since this is a joint conference hosted by Indian and Korean scholars and practitioners, the plenary talk allows us to position India and Korea as well in this history and the Asian Century now with us.
