By Elisa Arond, Iokiñe Rodríguez, Valeria Arza, Francisco Herrera and Myriam Sánchez This paper is one of a series of working papers relating regional experiences to ideas proposed by the…
Background Paper / Innovation, Sustainability, Development and Social Inclusion: Lessons from Latin America
GLOBELICS 2011
The STEPS Centre ran a special session at the 9th Globelics Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 17 November, entitled Innovation for Social Inclusion and Sustainable Development.
WE’RE IN THE IDS ANNUAL REPORT
By Nathan Oxley, STEPS Communications Assistant The STEPS Centre is mentioned twice in the beautifully interactive Annual Report of the Institute of Development Studies. The Knowledge, Technology and Society section…
TOP 10 POSTS OF ALL TIME
I’ve been looking at the most-viewed posts on the blog since we started in January 2007 (with a post on pro-poor rice farming). It’s interesting to see how the blog’s…
HAVE YOUR SAY: DELHI SEMINAR ON INNOVATION, SUSTAINABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT
At last month’s seminar on Innovation, Sustainability and Development at NISTADS, participants reflected on the state of innovation in various fields – in food and agriculture, health, ICTs, low carbon…
VIRUS AND BEAST: HOW ONE WORD CHANGES EVERYTHING
How does a single word affect the way we deal with a problem? Last night’s edition of All In The Mind on BBC Radio 4 offered a striking example. Researchers…
INDIA SEMINAR: INNOVATION, IDEAS & INSPIRATION
by Adrian Ely, Manifesto project convenor Last week, STEPS participated in a 3-day seminar on “Innovation, Sustainability and Development” in Delhi, India. It was hosted by the National Institute of…
Delhi, June 2011: Seminar on Innovation, Sustainability and Development
On June 28-30, 2011, the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (Delhi) organised an international seminar on Innovation, Sustainability and Development in partnership with the Centre for Development…
EVERYONE’S A WINNER (EXCEPT IF YOU’RE NOT…)
Photo: Jatropha curcas – the biofuel plant from tonrulkens’ photostream on Flickr Our director Melissa Leach is giving the first Annual Piers Blaikie Lecture on Environmental Politics at the University…
COMPLEXITY SCIENCE & DEVELOPMENT
In a world where systems change and interact unpredictably, there’s a growing interest in using complexity science to tackle questions in international development. Our director Melissa Leach spoke last month…