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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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.
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Recent Publications |
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. 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 Media responses UNCTAD: bigger state role needed to help poor countries, © Reuters Steve Schifferes: Poor countries 'need to change' (BBC), 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
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