By ESHA SHAH, STEPS Centre member A deadly strain of disease has been identified as spreading fast across the wheat fields of Asia and Africa and scientists are worried that…
RISK IN INDIA: NEW CROP TECHNOLOGIES OR NEW DISEASE?
RISK IN INDIA: NEW PHARMACEUTICALS & PATENT LAW
By ESHA SHAH, STEPS Centre member Controversy over the extent to which private pharmaceutical interests can creep into the debates around public good has arisen recently here in India. A…
RISK, UNCERTAINTY AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN INDIA
By ESHA SHAH, STEPS Centre member Our time is marked by a rapid technological change and associated anxieties about public and private risks, a significant part of which remain uncertain…
DEMOS ATLAS OF IDEAS: SOME UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
BY IAN SCOONES, co-director of the STEPS Centre A set of new reports from Demos, a London-based think-tank, argue that there is a new geography of science and innovation emerging,…