by Mariano Fressoli, Elisa Arond, Dinesh Abrol, Adrian Smith, Adrian Ely and Rafael Dias Submitted to Innovation & Development in 2014 Grassroots Innovation Movements (GIMs) can be regarded as initiators…
When grassroots innovation movements encounter mainstream institutions: implications for models of inclusive innovation (Submitted version)
Gender and the construction of identity within climate technology innovation in Kenya
This paper undertakes an analysis of the discursive construction of the entrepreneurial identity within media on climate technology (CT) innovation in Kenya. Using the STEPS Centre Pathways Approach along side a post-structuralist…
Socially Useful Production
STEPS Working Paper 58 A history and analysis is provided of the movement for socially useful production, which flourished for a brief period in the UK in the 1970s and…
Innovation politics post-Rio+20: hybrid pathways to sustainability?
The ability of innovation—both technical and social—to stretch and redefine ‘limits to growth’ was recognised at Stockholm in 1972, and has been a key feature in debates through to Rio+20…
Constructing grassroots innovations for sustainability
This article is included in a special issue of Global Environmental Change about grassroots innovations, guest edited by Adrian Smith and Gill Seyfang.
Broadening out and opening up technology assessment: Approaches to enhance international development, co-ordination and democratisation
Technology assessment (TA) has a strong history of helping to identify priorities and improve environmental sustainability, cost-effectiveness and wider benefits in the technology policies and innovation strategies of nation-states. At…
Innovation Histories Workshop on the Solar Home System Market in Kenya
This report presents proceedings of an innovation histories workshop on the Solar Home System (SHS) Market in Kenya. The workshop was held on 3 June 2013 at Silver Springs Hotel…
Biotechnology and its configurations: GM cotton production on large and small farms in Argentina
Drawing on a socio-technical systems perspective we compare the ways in which novel genetically modified (GM) crop artefacts, related devices and techniques, actors, practices, and institutions have been linked together,…
Grassroots innovation movements: challenges and contributions
Technologies for social inclusion in Latin America are a recent manifestation of grassroots innovation movements whose global activities go back to appropriate technology in the 1970s and earlier. Common to…
A new innovation politics for global pathways to sustainability?
Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy The ability of innovation – both technical and social – to stretch and redefine ‘limits to growth’ was recognised at Stockholm in 1972,…