A farewell as SPRU Director – Professor Schot’s leaving lecture
28th November 2018
As 2018 draws to a close, so does Professor Johan Schot’s five-year tenure as Director at the Science Policy Research…
Crafting Stories Of Technology And Progress: Five Considerations
11th June 2018
The blog for June was originally published by Professor Schot for the Society of the History of Technology and the…
Transform Innovation Policy; Transform Our World? Science, Technology & Innovation as a game-changer for the Sustainable Development Goals
22nd May 2018
This month blog is by Professor Johan Schot for the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium. Johan Schot | MAY 2018 The…
Innovation and Transformation in China
19th March 2018
Following Professor Schot’s Beijing visit for an exploratory workshop, on behalf of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium, to look at transformative…
Research and Innovation in a Time of Change
13th December 2017
This month’s blog post takes the form of an interview with Professor Schot conducted by the Norwegian publication, Forskningspolitikk. The interviewer…
A Post-plastic Age by Stealth?
17th November 2017
In the 1950s plastics were the future. They still are. The 9 million tons produced since the first plastics revolution…
Innovation Policy for the Future
10th March 2017
Guest Blog from the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research & Education following Professor Schot’s keynote ‘Research & Policy Agenda…
Social Progress: A Difficult Conversation
1st September 2016
We need to talk about Social Progress. We need to understand Social Progress. We need to create Social Progress. No…
Brexit: A Sign of Urgent Need to Rethink Social Progress
1st July 2016
Brexit indicates the crucial need for far deeper and wider reflection on our global future. Our world requires an urgent…