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Tag Archives: grassroots innovation

Post-automation, grassroots innovation and Corbyn

May 24, 2018by Adrian Smith

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 […]

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Crafting and coding with digital fabrication technologies, GDF (Grassroots Digital Fabrication), News, Uncategorized

Journal article: The role of community leadership in the development of grassroots innovations

March 30, 2017by Gill Seyfang

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 […]

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Academic papers, CISE (Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy), Community Energy

Grassroots Innovation Movements

August 17, 2016by Adrian Smith

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 […]

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Alternative Technology, Digital fabrication, GIHCP (Historical and Comparative Perspectives), Publications, Uncategorized

New book: Grassroots innovation movements

July 8, 2016by Adrian Smith

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 […]

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Academic papers, GIHCP (Historical and Comparative Perspectives), News, Publications, Uncategorized

Book chapter: Governance lessons from green niches – the case of eco-housing

March 22, 2016by Adrian Smith

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 […]

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Academic papers, Publications, Uncategorized

Journal article: What influences the diffusion of grassroots innovations for sustainability?

December 8, 2015by Gill Seyfang

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 […]

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Academic papers, Complementary Currencies, GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies), Theory

GI briefing 25: Unleashing Grassroots Innovations

July 24, 2015by Gill Seyfang

  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 […]

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Briefings, Complementary Currencies, GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies), Publications

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Grassroots Innovations

Grassroots innovations are community-led solutions for sustainability. Here we present news and updates from a series of research projects on grassroots innovations, based at the University of East Anglia and University of Sussex. Our research aims to better understand how these innovations develop and grow, and how they can be harnessed to meet sustainability policy objectives.

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