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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

CfP:Digital fabrications amongst hackers, makers and manufacturers: whose ‘industrial revolution’?

December 14, 2015by Adrian Smith

We invite abstracts for a track we are organising on the theme of digital fabrications amongst hackers, makers and manufacturers, and which will take place in Barcelona over August 31 to September […]

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Events, GDF (Grassroots Digital Fabrication), News, Uncategorized

Makers, fixers and circular economies

July 1, 2014by Adrian Smith

A new blog is on-line with Adrian Smith’s reflections on fixers and circular economies following his participation in the conference, Makers, fixers and grassroots innovations for the circular economy, in June 2014. […]

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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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