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 Risk-Reward Nexus, to study the relationship between innovation and inequality. She asks: What types of economic actors (workers, taxpayers, shareholders) make contributions of effort and...
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 development framework. The STEPS Centre is currently undertaking work around aligning the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS ) and post 2015 framework processes, and Fellows in...
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 this seminar Working with staff and stakeholders to think through how research can bring about development outcomes can change how projects and partnerships are planned,...
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 change, growth and inequalities within and between regions. STEPS Centre co-directors Andy Stirling and Ian Scoones and members, Adrian Smith, Adrian Ely are speaking at...
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 (pdf, 344 kb) For full information about the event, see the 2013 STEPS Summer School page.
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 Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, and in the School of Public Policy at University College...
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.
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 YouTube) Panel: Kirsty Alexander, Head of Communications, Nuclear Industry Association Thurstan Crockett, Head of Sustainability, Brighton and Hove City Council Doug Parr, Chief Scientist, Greenpeace...
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 Technical Adviser, National Drought Management Authority, Kenya (formerly Ministry of Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands) STEPS Centre / Future Agricultures Consortium Seminar In April...
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 are putting pressure on urban water systems around the world. In response, the concept of a water sensitive city has emerged in science, policy and...