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Special Issue of Innovation and Development:

Financing Innovation for development in the Global South - edited by Olga Mikheeva, Manuel Gonzalo and @joaomh.

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New UNIDO IAP blog on priorities for capitalizing on the green transition, summing some contributions to the UNCTAD, the UN trade & development body Technology and Innovation Report 2023
With Fabianna, Roberta Rabellotti & Clovis Freire Junior

#IAP #industrialanalytics United Nations University - MERIT

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I suggested an Appropriate Technology Score to guide decision-making about R&D, technology transfers, and investment. bit.ly/4c9sMaW ODID Oxford TMCD Marc Ventresca Green Templeton College OxfordSocialSciences Rasmus Lema Roberta Rabellotti Paavo Ritala Amir Lebdioui Beata Javorcik Juan Carlos Hallak

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If you are a Chinese citizen eager to make a difference in the policy field, this is your chance to join our master's program with full tuition coverage.

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Are you working on issues related to the political economy of energy transitions in Africa? Then you should consider joining this panel at the ASA 2024 Annual Meeting in Chicago in December:
The political economy of energy transitions in Africa africanstudies.org/annual-meeting…

Erika K-M opening the TRCTI conference on “Transforming Africa: Innovating our way towards sustainability”. Looking forward to the next couple of days! Trilateral Chair in Transformative Innovation

Is green a revolution or a direction for ICT? This thread by my co-author Rasmus Lema summarises some of the controversial claims we make. In my webpage carlotaperez.org/publications/#… you can find the table of contents and the abstract. Or download the whole thing.

Looking forward to this!

Today, the two-day Final CatChain Project Symposium kicked off at UNU-MERIT, with 13 experts from around the world presenting their latest findings around global value chains as they relate to technology, specialisation, diversification and green industrial policies.

Rasmus Lema presenting on #globalvaluechains and renewable energies at the CatChain final conference United Nations University - MERIT

Do global value chains spread knowledge and pollution? evidence from E... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… United Nations University - MERIT Economia Roma Tre Netherlands at UNESCO

«Globalisation is an opportunity.If we start looking at green industrialisation, critical minerals,we need to begin production where it’s closest.We don’t want to be a conveyor belt that exports raw goods to other parts of the 🌎 …That has been Africa’s story. »
Fatima Denton

With Rasmus Lema in bit.ly/3SKX5ga we illustrate what a 'DIRECTION' is for a techological revolution, comparing #Green to suburbanization, favoring innovation, investment & profitability during the post-war boom (the other direction was the Cold War)

Great to see that the green windows of opportunity framework is also useful to study the green transformation in the EU Rasmus Lema Xiaolan Fu Carolina Castaldi

Is #horizoneurope 🇪🇺creating green windows of opportunities for EU peripheral regions?

Check out this new paper in Review of Regional Research by Patricia Penalosa and myself

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The green transformation is primarily a direction-driven phenomenon, shaped by aspirational, political, and institutional changes, rather than a technology-driven phenomenon per se Carlota Perez Agirre Center merit.unu.edu/publications/w…

Green transformation, digital revolution, green-digital innovation... Tech and sustainability are catapulting us forward. Can institutions keep up?

Rasmus Lema & Carlota Perez explore in new paper and Diplomatic Courier op-ed:
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