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The Technological Change Lab (TCLab) is a research and advisory program associated with the Urban Planning program at Columbia University. It is housed at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and brings together economic development and social policy concerns underlying technological changes in urban city-regions and countries today. TCLab works across multiple industrial sectors with ongoing and planned projects across several industrialising countries.

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BRICSA Conference Summary Report

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NEW INDUSTRIAL POLICIES in the BRICSA countries, Smita Srinivas on India

 

Director of TCLab, Smita Srinivas, was invited present an editorial "One in six globally, but is India counting its own workers?", to India in Transition, a publication of the Center for Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania in February 2008.

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GLOBELICS Conference 2008, Mexico City

Forms of Social Democracy and the relationship between Political Economy & Innovation Policy

Rasigan Maharajh-South Africa

Smita Srinivas-US

Maria Clara Couto Soares-Brazil

Renato Dagnino-Brazil

Moderator: Roberta Rabellotti-Italy

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Economic and Social Protection Institutions Program

The program looks systematically at the co-evolution of social protections provided by the State and several other stakeholders.

See S. Srinivas (forthcoming). Industrial Welfare and the State: Nation and City Reconsidered, Theory and Society (Eds. Tilly and Hanagan)

Sotarauta, M. and S. Srinivas. 2006. Co-evolutionary Policy Processes: Understanding Innovative Economies and Future Resilience, Futures, 38 (3), April, pp. 312–336.

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Cover of UNCTAD LDC Report 2009

Cover of Technology in Society journal

S. Srinivas and J. Sutz. 2008. Developing Countries and Innovation: Searching for a New Analytical Approach, Technology in Society 30 (2) April, pp. 129-140.

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Cover of Regional Studies journal

S. Srinivas and K. Viljamaa. 2008. Emergence of Economic Institutions: Analysing the Third Role of Universities in Turku, Finland, Regional Studies, 42 (3) April, pp. 323-341.

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Smita Srinivas 2009 Industry Policy, Technological Change, and the State (BP7) UNCTAD LDCR 2009

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Media responses

UNCTAD: bigger state role needed to help poor countries, © Reuters

Steve Schifferes: Poor countries 'need to change' (BBC), BBC © MMIX

Hamish McRae: Here is a chance to reboot the world's development machine (The Independent), © 2009 Independent News and Media

Hannah Stewart: Charity Begins at Home for the Rich Nations (The Guardian) © Guardian News and Media Limited 2009