30 October 2008 – Fred Steward, Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Brunel University gave a STEPS Manifesto seminar on Transformative Innovation for the Global Good: A shared challenge-oriented mission for…
Fred Steward on innovation for the global good
What is ‘Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto’?
In 1970 the publication of a radical and controversial document helped shape modern thinking on science and technology for development. It was called The Sussex Manifesto: Science and Technology to…
Why is a New Manifesto needed now?
Standard policies link innovation, science and technology to development in ways that are not always the most sustainable and equitable solutions for the people they seek to help. As…
A new ‘3D’ agenda
Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto aims to challenge the mainstream models of science and technology for development that have become integral to government and international agency policy.
Elements of the New Manifesto
The New Manifesto will integrate lessons learned since the original with emerging perspectives to investigate current debates in science and technology for development.
Backstory
At the tail end of the 1960’s the United Nations asked for recommendations on science and technology for development from ‘The Sussex Group’ – a team from the Institute…
Resources
Here you can download the original 1970 Sussex Manifesto and access a variety of resources on Professor Geoff Oldham’s seminar on the writing of that document forty years ago.
Project presentation
View the Manifesto presentation given by project convenor Adrian Ely at the OECD-UNESCO International Workshop on Innovation for Development: Converting Knowledge to Value. 28-30 January 2009 at OCED headquarters, Paris.
About us
The team working on the Innovation, Sustainability, Innovation: A New Manifesto are members of the STEPS Centre along with Professor Geoff Oldham, one of the authors of the original 1970 Sussex Manifesto, and…