The Eco-Business Market Advantage
By Peter Dauvergne & Jane Lister
“When sustainability burst onto the scene it was in the responsibility category, something that a company should do because...
Putting Research into Use (RIU): Technology Development for the Poor Farmer in Low Income...
By Norman Clark
The Research Into Use programme aims to help agricultural research projects put its existing stock of knowledge into practical use rather than...
Regional Innovation: How To Be Smart, Sustainable and Robust
By Michele Mastroeni, Joyce Tait& Alessandro Rosiello
The encouragement of innovation has been pursued by many different governments and levels of government, as innovation is...
The Role of Urban Spaces in the Creation of Value
By Martha Schwartz
Martha Schwartz, a professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, discusses how urban landscape design plays an important role in the creation...
Law and the Technologies of the Twenty-First Century
By Roger Brownsword & Morag Goodwin
The authors of Law and the Technologies of the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2012) examine both the challenges...
Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance in Putin’s Russia
By Alena Ledeneva
In her new monograph Can Russia Modernise? Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance, Alena Ledeneva seeks to decode and reveal how informal...
Transport And The Environment in Asian Megacities
By Shinya Hanaoka
This article has addressed two environmental problems whose origins lie in the transport sector: local air pollution and CO2 emissions. Globally, the...
How Rapidly Should Africa Go Green? The Tension Between Natural Abundance And Economic Scarcity.
By Paul Collier & Anthony J. Venables
Africa is the green continent: its CO2 emissions per person are less than one tonne pa, one-fifteenth of...
China’s Global Tectonic Shifts: The Dawn of a New Era
By Jean-Pierre Lehmann
China has new political leadership. The newness of the new era, however, is by no means limited to the new leadership. The...
The Educated Middle Class, their Economic Prospects, and the Arab Spring
By Filipe R. Campante & Davin Chor
The recent uprisings in the Arab World carry a broader lesson, highlighting the importance of sustaining an economy...
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The AI Arms Race
By Christian Jacob
Everyone in the world of finance understands that fraud is a constant and ever-changing challenge. Fraudsters in the 19th and early 20th centuries used simple, hands-on techniques to perpetrate their crimes. The...
