A farewell as SPRU Director – Professor Schot’s leaving lecture
28th November 2018
As 2018 draws to a close, so does Professor Johan Schotās 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…
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,Ā 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,Ā 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…
Striking a balance between ādoing allā and āprohibiting allā in geoengineering research and governance
9th May 2017
Guest blog by Judith Kreuter,Ā Political Science Institute at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany “The governance of emerging technology…
Innovation Policy for the Future
10th March 2017
Guest Blog from the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research & Education following ProfessorĀ Schot’s keynote ‘Research & Policy Agenda…
How the Car Became King in USA
14th December 2016
Daily mobility in America is, for the majority, all about the car. Car culture is the culture. Society in the…
What role for local actors in system change? Fighting climate change in the UKĀ
2nd December 2016
Guest Blog, Originally published by Oxfam Blogs, November 29, 2016 Ruth Mayne, Oxfamās senior researcher on the effectiveness of influencing,…