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Policy Lab: Where have the politics gone?
On 14 June 2010, the eve of the New Manifesto launch, the Royal Society hosted a discussion about the politics of science and innovation for development. The title was “Science and Innovation for development: Where have all the politics gone?”. The speakers were Prof Andy Stirling, co-director of the STEPS Centre, and Dr Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy at UNESCO.
This “Policy Lab” event is one of a series hosted by the Royal Society’s Science and Policy Centre.
Presentations - view or download
Prof Andy Stirling: Science and innovation for development: Where have the politics gone?
Dr Lidia Brito: STI for social justice and sustainable development: a New STEPS Manifesto for Global Science
Related publications
3Ds - Direction, Distribution and Diversity! Pluralising Progress in Innovation, Sustainability and Development (PDF, 700KB) by Stirling, A.
Manifesto launch: video
At the Royal Society in London on 15 June, the Manifesto was launched with a set of provocative and passionate responses by speakers from around the globe.
Now all the presentations, and the questions which followed them, are available to watch online at our blip.tv channel. Direct links to the individual videos are below.
MANIFESTO LAUNCH: 15 JUNE
The launch of Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto will take place in London on 15 June 2010. Register to attend or look at the programme here.
Brighton debate: video and photos
You can now watch the Brighton debate which followed our roundtable on 15 March 2010. Entitled “Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A Manifesto for Brighton and Hove”, the debate brought together a panel of local political candidates to answer questions from the public.
India roundtables - photos
Images from the roundtables in Bangalore and Delhi are now available on our Flickr site.
Background Paper / Trends in the Global Distribution of R&D Since the 1970s: Data, their Interpretation and Limitations
By Elisa Arond and Martin Bell
The 1970 ‘Sussex Manifesto’ was one of the earliest global policy reports to use statistical data about R&D that were starting to become available on an internationally comparable basis, though only in a very sketchy form for developing countries. It demonstrated the marginal position of that group of countries as contributors to the
world’s R&D, accounting for only about 2 per cent of the global total. It also couched some of its core recommendations about policy in terms of quantitative indicators of R&D, but highlighted several major limitations of such indicators as tools for policy.
