Communities, technologies and democratic innovation
At an ESRC Festival of Social Science event on 12th November 2020 (12:30) Wired Sussex at Fusebox director Phil Jones is interviewing Prof Andy Stirling and Prof Adrian Smith in […]
Tag Archives: grassroots innovation
Going beyond the smart city? Implementing technopolitical platforms for urban democracy in Madrid and Barcelona
This post reports research into the situated development over time of two digital platforms for democratic deliberation and decision. There has been renewed interest recently in techniques for facilitated citizen […]
Post-automation, grassroots innovation and Corbyn
Adrian Smith was recently interviewed (May 20th) in the newsletter of Fully Automated Luxury Communism. He explained his ideas for post-automation and the importance for democracy of grassroots innovation and […]
Journal article: The role of community leadership in the development of grassroots innovations
This article focuses on the role of community leadership in the development of grass- roots innovations. It asks: When community leaders initiate energy projects, what types of skills and knowledge […]
Grassroots Innovation Movements
You can get a twenty per cent discount on buying our new book, Grassroots Innovation Movements, published by Routledge and available in Paperback as well as Hardcover. The discount code […]
New book: Grassroots innovation movements
Our new book, Grassroots Innovation Movements, will be published in August 2016. You can download the Open Access Introductory chapter here. Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business […]
Book chapter: Governance lessons from green niches – the case of eco-housing
This book chapter looks at the history of eco-housing in the UK and contrasts it with building processes in the volume housebuilding sector. Over decades, eco-housing activists have cultivated a wide […]
Journal article: What influences the diffusion of grassroots innovations for sustainability?
Community action for sustainability is a promising site of socio- technical innovation. Here we test the applicability of co- evolutionary niche theories of innovation diffusion (strategic niche management, SNM) to […]
GI briefing 25: Unleashing Grassroots Innovations
Unleashing Grassroots Innovations: A Quest For Community Currency Growth How can grassroots innovations grow, achieve their potential, and increase their influence? Gill Seyfang presents findings of a 3-year quest to […]
Working Paper: Understanding the diffusion of grassroots innovations for sustainability
An international study of community currency niches Community action for sustainability is an often-overlooked, yet potentially promising site of socio-technical innovation. In this paper we test the applicability of co-evolutionary […]
Community energy projects are not taken seriously enough by the government
Community-led sustainable energy projects are not taken seriously enough by the government, according to a new paper from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and University of Sussex. Published today, the […]
Delhi workshop on grassroots innovation movements, 8 February 2014
A workshop held in Delhi on 8th February will bring together researchers, activists and policy-makers to learn from one another about grassroots innovation movements. The workshop is organised by Dinesh […]
Recalling the Lucas Plan: what can an old movement for socially useful production tell us about democratising technology today?
SPRU Wednesday Seminar 5th February 2014, room G22, Jubilee Building, University of Sussex Speaker: Adrian Smith; Discussant: Johan Schot It is thirty-eight years since a movement for ‘socially useful production’ pioneered […]
Call for abstracts: what is inclusive innovation? ESOCITE/4S conference in Buenos Aires, August 2014
We are seeking abstracts for high-quality research papers on the topic of innovation for social inclusive and development. The call arises from a session Adrian Smith and colleagues are organising […]
GI briefing 21: Constructing grassroots innovations for sustainability
Constructing grassroots innovations for sustainability: New research in the field Adrian Smith and Gill Seyfang introduce a new collection of academic papers on grassroots innovations, and discuss the origins and […]
Special ‘grassroots innovation’ issue of Global Environmental Change
The latest issue of the leading research journal Global Environmental Change is dedicated to the topic of grassroots innovation for sustainability. The special issue contains six original research articles Guest […]
Journal article: Grassroots innovation movements: contributions and challenges
Technologies for social inclusion in Latin America are a recent manifestation of grassroots innovation movements whose global activities go back to appropriate technology in the 1970s and earlier. Common to […]
Working Paper: A Grassroots Sustainable Energy Niche?
A new working paper presents new evidence from our 12 in-depth case studies of community energy projects in the UK and explores how useful ‘niche management’ theory is in helping […]
PhD: Crisis or Opportunity? Post-capitalist possibilities of community currency movements (Phedeas Stephanides)
Phedeas Stephanides Doctoral student 3S (Science, Society and Sustainability) Research Group, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK p.stephanides@uea.ac.uk @P_Stephanides website: sustainabilitycrisis.wordpress.com Phedeas’s PhD research […]
Grassroots Innovations at New Economics summer institute
Gill Seyfang is one of a core faculty team teaching about Grassroots Innovations and Sustainability Transitions at the Second Annual Summer Institute in New Economics hosted by the Wingspread Retreat Center, Wind […]
