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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.

News & Events

Read More....Industrial policies, STI, employment

UN/DESA Report: Stronger industrial policies needed to face the climate and development challenges

UN/DESA: Technology Transfer and Climate Change: Beyond TRIPS

Work Foundation (UK): The Knowledge-Based Industrial Economy

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Director of TCLab Smita Srinivas's editorial "One in six globally, but is India counting its own workers?". India in Transition, a publication of the Center for Advanced Study of India, UPenn, Feb 2008.

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Research Initiatives

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Labour Inspection and New Economic Governance Program:

An innovative collaborative research and policy initiative withthe Karnataka State Labour Inspectorate in S. India is attempting to understand progressive planning on industrial employment, economic organisation, and social protections across the fastest growing economic regions of the country.

 

Recent Publications

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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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Cover of UNCTAD LDC Report 2009

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

Other Background Papers

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