Mariana Mazzucato, Professor of Economics, SPRU, University of Sussex, will give a STEPS Seminar on Tuesday 16 April on a new framework to study the relationship between innovation and inequality. Tuesday 16 April, 1pm-2.30pm University of…
The Entrepreneurial State and the Risk-Reward Nexus: Implications for Innovation and Inequality
HAVE YOUR SAY: DELHI SEMINAR ON INNOVATION, SUSTAINABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT
At last month’s seminar on Innovation, Sustainability and Development at NISTADS, participants reflected on the state of innovation in various fields – in food and agriculture, health, ICTs, low carbon…
EGYPT AND SUDAN: POLITICS AND WATER IN A NEW NILE STATE
Our STEPS Water Seminar on 22 February is with Ana Cascão from Stockholm International Water Institute, who’s recently returned from working in Egypt and Sudan. Ana is a political scientist…
Symposium ’09: What happened
This is the first of a series of posts which put forward summaries of the sessions at the STEPS annual symposium 2009, especially the implications of these discussions for the…
STEPS Centre Symposium 2009
We live in a time of transformations. The collapse of the Washington “consensus”, the financial crisis, the rise of China and other emerging economies and, of course, the threat of…
Padmashree Gehl Sampath on knowledge through IP
16 June 2009 – Dr Padmashree Gehl Sampath of the United Nations University gave a seminar entitled ‘Promoting Knowledge Generation through Intellectual property in Late Development’
Joanna Chataway on below the radar innovation
5 March 2009 – Joanna Chataway, Co-Director of the ESRC Innogen Research Centre, Development Policy and Practice, Open University gave a seminar entitled ‘Below the Radar’: A user and market…
John Harris asks what science is for?
25 February 2009 – Professor John Harris, Director of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation (iSEI), The University of Manchester, gave a STEPS Manifesto Seminar on What is Science…
Arie Rip on knowledge, research and innovation systems
19 February 2009 – Arie Rip, Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology in the School of Management and Governance of the University of Twente, gave a Manifesto seminar entitled, Putting…
Andrew Barnett on agricultural research innovation
16 January 2009 – Dr Andrew Barnett, Director, Policy Practice Ltd gave a STEPS Manifesto seminar entitled Innovation – re-labelling research or a shift in paradigm: the current debate in…