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
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).
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
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
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
“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.”