The book, Grassroots Innovation Movements, is now available open access. The book examines six diverse grassroots movements in India, South America & Europe, and explores for each the spaces where […]
In the summer of 2016 Andy Stirling and Adrian Smith were asked by Friends of the Earth to write a ‘thinkpiece’ on the topic grassroots innovation and democracy as part […]
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 […]
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 […]
The final, synthesis article from the CISE research project is published in the journal Environment & Planning A. The Open Access article (pdf) argues for a refocusing around the critical edges that […]
On 11th June 2015, Adrian Smith was interviewed by Dave Pickering, who produces podcasts for the Restart Party. Dave wanted to learn Adrian’s views on Restart activities, as well as […]
“Throughout the history of both modern environmentalism and development there has existed an insistent undercurrent of practical, grassroots initiatives seeking socially just and environmentally sustainable forms of production and consumption”. […]
An edited Spanish version is now online of Adrian Smith’s blog about the Lucas Plan and movement for socially useful production originally posted in English on the Guardian newspaper site. […]
We have a new working paper from our project Grassroots innovations in historical and comparative perspective. Mariano Fressoli from Fundación Cenit and Rafael Dias from UNICAMP have just published a […]
A new article from the project, Grassroots innovation movements in historical and comparative perspective, is available in the journal Innovation & Development. The article gives an account of relations between […]
Though largely forgotten now, Technology Networks were community-based prototyping workshops supported by the Greater London Council from 1983 until 1986. The aim was to bring together the ‘untapped skill, creativity […]
Last week (20-21 March) Adrian Smith was invited to speak at the OECD Symposium on Innovation and Inclusive Growth. The organiser wanted to learn what lessons our research into grassroots innovation […]
A new report from the European Commission draws upon our grassroots innovation research as one way of analysing social innovation and the environment. The In-depth Report from the Science for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
An international declaration for grassroots innovation has recently been issued. Its authors set out a series of recommendations for improving the support for grassroots innovation in ways they believe will […]
SPRU and STEPS members Adrian Smith and Elisa Arond have contributed to a Spotlight feature on grassroots innovation for the SciDev.net website. SciDev provides a global forum for news, opinion and research […]
This project examines inclusive innovation and the present-day programmes and social movements which promote it.
Grassroots Innovations 