Arabic translation of Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto.
Arabic version: Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto
Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto
Our Manifesto project publication is available in print, on CD or to view online. Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto recommends new ways of linking science and innovation to development…
Environmental Change and Maize Innovation in Kenya: Exploring Pathways In and Out of Maize
This paper summarises the findings of the STEPS Environmental Change and Maize Innovation in Kenya project. Maize is an important staple crop in Kenya, socially, politically and economically. This project…
Liquid Dynamics: Accessing Water and Sanitation in an Uncertain Age – Symposium Report
This report summarises the proceedings of the two-day Liquid Dynamics symposium held at the STEPS Centre in Brighton in November 2009. The Water and Sanitation domain of the STEPS Centre…
Innovation Capabilities and Directions of Development
The central challenge in the original Sussex Manifesto centred on massively increasing the developing countries’ scientific and technological capabilities for creating new knowledge and shaping the technologies they used. It…
Direction, Distribution and Diversity! Pluralising Progress in Innovation, Sustainability and Development
Notions of ‘progress’ pervade the modern world. Yet, ‘north’ and ‘south’ alike, policymaking for progress in innovation, sustainability and development tends to be ambiguous. Politicians speak of “the way forward”,…
Low Carbon Development: The Role of Local Innovative Capabilities
The term “development” is synonymous with economic growth. Theory and empirical evidence suggests decoupling energy use from economic growth is unlikely, implying an urgent need to decarbonise energy use and…
Emerging Technologies and Opportunities for International Science and Technology Foresight
This background paper focuses on the potential role that international science and technology ‘foresight-type’ activities might play in informing decision-making processes about innovation, development and emerging technologies. Two, predominantly national-level,…
Manifesting Utopia: History and Philosophy of UN Debates on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development
This paper revisits a series of key moments in the last 50 years of UN debates on science and technology for sustainable development. It reflects on the genealogy of tropes…
Centres of Excellence? Questions of Capacity for Innovation, Sustainability, Development
This paper explores what ‘mainstream’ Centres of Excellence might mean for developing countries and poor people. It examines how development is constructed as economic growth with industry and enterprise –…