Melissa Leach, STEPS Centre director, was one of 28 scientists invited to attend a United Nations Expert Meeting to discuss science and Sustainable Development Goals. She reflects on the issues addressed,…
Democracy in the Anthropocene? Science and Sustainable Development Goals at the UN
World Water Day 2013
Lyla Mehta, STEPS Centre water and sanitation convenor, writes about the need to look at the Millennium Development Goal on water and sanitation and what it means for gender justice, particularly as we look…
STEPS Seminar: The Entrepreneurial State and the Risk-Reward Nexus: Implications for Innovation and Inequality
Mariana Mazzucato, Professor of Economics and RM Phillips Chair in Science and Technology Policy at SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex, will give a STEPS…
The Entrepreneurial State and the Risk-Reward Nexus: Implications for Innovation and Inequality
Mariana Mazzucato, Professor of Economics, SPRU, University of Sussex, will give a STEPS Seminar on Tuesday 16 April on a new framework to study the relationship between innovation and inequality. Tuesday 16 April, 1pm-2.30pm University of…
Technological paradigms and technological trajectories – 1982
Giovanni Dosi – 1982 There is a recognised relationship between economic growth and technical progress; however the intimacies of the relationship includes technical development in relation to the market in…
Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach – July 1983
At a time when well-being was measured as either opulence (income) or utility (happiness, desire fulfilment), Amartya Sen introduced a more elaborate human development model that included social and psychological…
Last Child in the Woods
Richard Louv’s book, ‘Last Child in the Woods’ illustrates the alarming impact that a growing divide between children and the outdoors has had on childhood development and environmental outlooks. He…
First issue of the Whole Earth Catalog
“We are as gods, and might as well get good at it.” — Stewart Brand, The Whole Earth Catalog, 1968. A self-published occasional ecology magazine, which ran from 1968-1974 (with…
Joseph Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy 1942
The work within this book has been an important building block towards the understanding of innovation. In this seminal book, Schumpeter first identified the notion of creative destruction. Schumpeter used…
“Scientific Research and Social Needs” by Julian Huxley, 1934
Julian Huxley’s book “Scientific Research and Social Needs“, which was published in 1934, deals with British science efforts, with particular reference to social needs. He sees science as a social…