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The Entrepreneurial State and the Risk-Reward Nexus: Implications for Innovation and Inequality
Room G30, Jubilee Building University of Sussex, Brighton, United KingdomMariana Mazzucato, Professor of Economics and RM Phillips Chair in Science and Technology Policy, SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex Mariana presents a new framework, called the...
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Seminar: The STEPS Centre and the Participate Initiative – addressing fundamental questions in the post-2015 debate
Room 221 IDS, University of Sussex, United KingdomThis seminar is an opportunity for discussion between different areas of work at the Institute of Development Studies aiming to address some of the fundamental questions surrounding the creation of a post-2015...
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STEPS Seminar: Boru Douthwaite on Using Theory of Change to Lever Change: Experience from the CGIAR
Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom‘Using Theory of Change to Lever Change: Experience from the CGIAR’ Boru Douthwaite, Principal Scientist on the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) at WorldFish Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM6mpqTrFLM About...
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DIG-IT Workshop: Dialogue on Inclusive Growth, Innovation and Technology
, United StatesThe DIG-IT Workshop on Inclusive Growth, Innovation and Technology promotes a unique forum for discussion of alternative and interdisciplinary frameworks to improve our understanding of the nexus between innovation, technological...
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STEPS Centre Summer School 2013
Sussex University campus Falmer, United KingdomThe next STEPS Summer School will be on 13-24 May 2013 at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. Download the 2013 Summer School brochure and application details: 2013 Summer School...
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Public lecture: Prof Michael Jacobs, Grantham Research Institute
Fulton A Lecture Theatre University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom'Capitalism, carbon and climate change' Fulton A Lecture Theatre University of Sussex, Falmer Brighton Public lecture, followed by drinks reception All welcome Michael Jacobs is a Visiting Professor at the...
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CANCELLED: Public lecture: Prof Johan Rockström, Stockholm Resilience Centre
, United StatesPlanetary boundaries and Sustainable Development Goals Unfortunately Johan Rockström, Stockholm Resilience Centre, will no longer be able to give this lecture.
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Public debate: Fuel poverty, climate change and social justice
, United StatesPublic debate at the Jubilee Library, Brighton, UK. Part of the Brighton Fringe Festival 2013. Find out more about the 2013 STEPS Summer School Watch the video of this debate (on...
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STEPS/Future Agricultures Seminar: Mohamed Elmi and Izzy Birch
Institute of Development Studies , United KingdomThe politics of policy-making around pastoralism in Kenya Hon. Mohamed Elmi Member of Parliament for Tarbaj constituency, Kenya and Former Minister for Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands Izzy Birch...
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Transition Pathways to Water Sensitive Cities
Room 144, Jubilee Building University of Sussex, Falmer, United KingdomFjalar de Haan, Annette Bos, Briony Ferguson Research Fellows at Monash Water for Liveability Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Climate change, resource limitations, changing demographics, ageing infrastructure and evolving community values...
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International Workshop: New Models of Innovation for Development
UCL Roberts 106 LT Roberts Building, Torrington Place, London, United KingdomInnovation has been moving up the strategic agendas of business, government and international agencies working in developing countries. New markets for innovative goods and services among those at the base...
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STEPS/IDS Seminar: Jon Morris – Reimagining development 3.0 for a changing planet
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United KingdomReimagining development 3.0 for a changing planet Professor Jon Morris 24 July 2013 at 13.00 – 14.30 Room 221, Institute of Development Studies About the seminar: The need to ‘re-imagine’...
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STEPS Seminar: Bram Büscher on Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa
Room 221 Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, United KingdomSTEPS Seminar - Bram Büscher on transboundary peace parks in Southern Africa, October 2013 by Stepscentre on Mixcloud Bram Büscher talks about the themes covered in his recently published book, Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks...
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The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management in southern Africa
Tasi 1 White Sands Hotel, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic OfSpecial session at the 14th WATERNET Symposium, White Sands Hotel, Dar Es Salaam This special session draws on ongoing research of the Norwegian Research Council Project ‘Flows and Practices. The...
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Putting the Power in ‘Socio-Technical Regimes’- E-Mobility Transition in China as Political Process
Room G22, Jubilee Building University of Sussex, Brighton, United KingdomDr David Tyfield, Co-Director, Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University One of the greatest challenges regarding contemporary research into socio-technical transition concerns the possibility of ‘sustainable transport’. Transportation, which accounts...
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Controlling the climate? Public debate on geoengineering
The Old Market 11A Upper Market Street, Hove, United KingdomAs climate change intensifies, some scientists suggest the need for a 'plan B' if immediate emissions reductions don’t prove feasible. Research into geoengineering (the large scale intentional manipulation of the...
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Investing in Food security? Philanthrocapitalism, biotechnology and development
Jubilee Lecture Theatre 144 Jubilee Building, University of Sussex, BrightonSally Brooks, University of York This paper traces the evolution of philanthropic involvement in developing country agriculture from the ‘scientific philanthropy’ of the Rockefeller Foundation during and after the Green...
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COP19 side event: Beyond Technology Transfer
Torun Room (B3), National Stadium Al. Ks. J. Poniatowskiego 1, WarsawThe STEPS Centre's energy and climate change co-convenor Dr Rob Byrne is presenting at a side event for COP19 entitled: Beyond Technology Transfer: Insights for the Technology Mechanism from low C...
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Our Future in the Anthropocene
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , SwedenSTEPS Centre director Melissa Leach will be giving a talk entitled 'science-governance challenges in the Anthropocene’ as part of a half-day seminar, Our Future in the Anthropocene, hosted by the Stockholm...
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STEPS Seminar: Aid on the Edge of Chaos
Convening Space, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomBen Ramalingam Research Associate, Overseas Development Institute and STEPS Centre Visiting Fellow at IDS It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system is in need of drastic change. But...
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STEPS Seminar: Paul Richards on social cohesion in Sierra Leone
Room 121, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, UK‘Clash of Institutions? Researching Social Cohesion in a Post-Conflict Agrarian Society (Sierra Leone)’ Paul Richards Visiting Professor, School of Environmental Studies, Njala University, Sierra Leone; Emeritus professor of Technology and...
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STEPS Seminar: Bruce Lankford on Resource Efficiency, Complexity and the Commons
Room 221, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomResource Efficiency Complexity and the Commons: The Paracommons and Paradoxes of Natural Resource Losses, Wastes and Wastages Bruce Lankford, Professor of Irrigation and Water Policy, School of International Development, University...
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Seminar: Adrian Smith on the Lucas Plan
Room G22, SPRU Jubilee Building, University of Sussex, Brighton'Recalling the Lucas Plan: what can an old movement for socially useful production tell us about democratising technology today?' Adrian Smith, STEPS Centre/SPRU 5 February 2014 1pm, room G22, SPRU...
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Grassroots Innovation Movements workshop, Delhi
Unnamed Venue Delhi, IndiaThis workshop will bring together researchers, activists and policy-makers to learn from one another about grassroots innovation movements. The workshop is organised by Dinesh Abrol at Centre for Studies in...
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STEPS-JNU Symposium: Exploring Pathways to Sustainability
Our 2014 Annual Symposium, ‘Exploring pathways to sustainability’, is being co-organised with the Centre for Studies in Science Policy at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and will be held on...
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Integrating Impact Planning into Research Projects: Reflections from the STEPS Centre
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomSTEPS/CDI Seminar Adrian Ely, Head of Impact and Engagement, STEPS Centre and Nathan Oxley, Communications Officer, STEPS Centre Researchers, along with development programmes, are increasingly called on to demonstrate the...
