We’ve just published two new Working Papers: one on Water reform in South Africa, the other on polio vaccine development. Photo: Growing vegetables near the Driekoppies dam, Lomati river by…
NEW STEPS PUBLICATIONS: WATER REFORM AND VACCINES
ELINOR OSTROM’S NOBEL PRIZE
By Lyla Mehta and Melissa Leach After a surprising Nobel Prize week, Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Prize award in Economic Sciences, shared with Oliver Williamson, is to be welcomed and celebrated….
ADRIAN SMITH ON ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGY
Following Adrian’s post on his journey to Argentina, he’s added a new presentation from the trip to our Slideshare. If your Spanish isn’t up to scratch, it includes some great…
GRASSROOTS INNOVATION
By Adrian Smith It is imperative, in my view, that grassroots innovation does not become ghettoised into ‘technologies for the poor’. Last week I enjoyed a fascinating trip to Argentina,…
STEPS SYMPOSIUM: REDISTRIBUTING INNOVATION
By Julian Pineres Ramirez, PhD student, CENTRIM, Brighton University “What opportunities are presented by the global redistribution of innovative activity?” was the title of Session 3. The questions of how…
STEPS SYMPOSIUM: REALITY CHECK
By Katharina Welle, STEPS Centre PhD student The New Manifesto, presented by Adrian Ely on day one of the STEPS Centre Symposium, argues for three crucial shifts in thinking about…