Presentations

The presentations from the roundtable can be viewed or downloaded on Slideshare.

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This page includes links to the speakers’ presentations on our Slideshare, where you can view or download them.

Films and photos from the day are also available.

The workshop was co-organised by China Institute for Science and Technology Policy (CISTP) at Tsinghua University and the STEPS Centre. It was supported by China Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), and UK Department for International Development (DFID).

Programme
The full programme is below, with links to the available presentations.

1. Welcome and introduction (Chair: Prof SU Jun/Adrian Ely)
Formal welcome by Prof XUE Lan, Dean, School of Public Policy and Management, Director, CISTP Tsinghua University
Hu Yu, Deputy Chairman, Youth Union of MoST, Director, Department of Theory, Science and Technology Daily
David Bacon, Counsellor, Science and Innovation, British Embassy: UK Innovation Policy
Ling CUI (DfID)
Q&A

2. Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto
(Chair: HU Yu/David Bacon)
Prof Geoff Oldham, Sussex University: Reflections on UK/China Collaborations on STI policy Research – a SPRU perspective
Dr Adrian Ely, STEPS Centre: Introduction - “Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto”
Q&A
Professor XUE Lan, Tsinghua University: Challenges to Global Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation
Responses: MU Rongping (Director, CAS-Institute of Policy and Management), XIAO Guanglin (Director, Tsinghua University Institute of Science, Technology and Society), LIU Xielin (Associate Dean, School of Management, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

>> Video of presentations by XUE Lan, LIU Xielin and MU Rongping

3.Comparing UK-China Approaches to STI Policy for Sustainability
(Chair: Prof XIAO Guanglin / Dr Lars Frederiksen)
Prof Fred Steward (PSI, University of Westminster): Innovation policy for sustainability – a new agenda
Director ZHAO Huijun (Department of Policy and Regulation, MOST)
YU Jiang (Associate Professor, Institute of Technology Policy, CAS): Innovation Policy for Sustainable Development: Some Primary Study in Nanotech Sectors of Europe and China
JIN Jun (Zhejiang University): To be sustainable and innovative: The Hangzhou experience

4. Building sustainable innovation capabilities among UK and Chinese firms (Chair: Prof LIU Xielin/ Fred Steward)
Dr Lars Frederiksen (Imperial College Business School): Ecocit: Research on innovation and sustainability in urban design
GAO Xudong (Associate Professor, School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University): Sustainable growth at the bottom in China through resource integration to serve the high end market
Dr. Michael Harris (NESTA)
Dr David Tyfield (Lancaster University): Game-changing Innovation in China
Q&A

5. International (including UK-China) collaboration for more equitable low-carbon development (Chair: Prof. Hui LUO/Adrian Ely)
Dr Frauke Urban (Institute of Development Studies): International collaboration for equitable low carbon development: NZEC and Low Carbon Innovation Centres
Dr SUN Wansong (Director of Investment Promotion, MofCOM): Investment Promotion Work under Low Carbon Economy
Dr. DAI Yixin (CISTP, Tsinghua University): Low carbon city development in China: A case of Baoding
ZHU Xufeng, Associate Professor (NanKai University): Low Carbon Cooperation and Global Leadership

6. Science, Technology and Innovation among BRICS and implications for global governance (Chair: CHEN Yantai/Geoff Oldham)
LUO Hui (MOST-CAST): Global Governance of S&T: Adapting to the Adjustment of Global Innovation Pattern
PENG Cheng, Management School, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences: The Scale of FDI and Innovation of Local Firm
LIANG Zheng, Associate Professor, Director Assistant, CISTP, Tsinghua University: Comparison of China and India in R&D globalisation

Q&A

7. Concluding Session - Taking forward UK-China collaboration on innovation for sustainability and equitable development (Chair: Gu Shulin, Tsinghua University)
This session took forward the discussions during the day to help to identify:
- new policy approaches linking innovation to global and local sustainability challenges (of relevance to both DIUS/BIS and DfID Research)
- possibilities for future UK-China innovation policy research partnerships that more directly link innovation to sustainability and development goals.

Speakers’ presentations from the day are also available to view or download.

Photos

Flickr set: Beijing Manifesto roundtable

Video

You can watch individual presentations from the Roundtable below:

>> Prof Lan Xue, Professor and Dean of School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University: video

Prof Lan Xue called for a permanent secretariat to the G20 and the establishment of an International Science Foundation.

>> Prof Mu Rongping, Director, Institute for Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences: video (in Chinese) / transcript (in English)

China’s innovation policy has moved to focus on innovation management and co-ordination, S&T development, industrial innovation, innovation in the social domain (health, public services, security and the environment, infrastructure and innovation culture).

>> Liu Xielin, Vice-President, School of Management, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Science: video (in Chinese) / transcript (in English)

The original Sussex Manifesto played a significant role in changing the thinking around Science & Technology policy and innovation in China.

The full text is now available to download free. You can order a hard copy from the IDS shop, at a cost of £5.

>> Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto (pdf 1MB)

A multimedia version, with extra audio, video and documents, is also available as a CD or to browse on this website.

The process involved a series of events and activities at multiple levels of engagement, including workshops with grassroots organisations (3) and field meetings with community women at village level (15) to produce a “Marathmoli Manifesto”.

The draft Manifesto document was translated from English into Marathi. Effort was also made to contextualise the themes to relate to local realities. In addition to the STEPS draft Manifesto, the Marathmoli team also spoke about the Indian ‘Knowledge Swaraj’ Manifesto on Science and Technology Policy, developed by Knowledge in Civil Society.

Approach

In developing a Manifesto that represented the realities of Indian women, Marathmoli focused on the 3Ds concept from the STEPS Manifesto, and drew on the concept of cognitive justice presented in the ‘Knowledge Swaraj’ document but thought it necessary to frame these in the feminist context.

Giving a historical overview of the growth of modern science and technology in Europe, Marathmoli’s Manifesto located the devaluation of experiential knowledge, especially of women and other marginalised communities, and the violence of science and technology innovation in the systemic processes of the ideology of caste, colonialisation, patriarchy and market-based globalisation.

Process

Sangamner Roundtable

Workshop
Marathmoli conducted a workshop with 15 activists representing two grassroots organisations in Sangamner district, Maharashtra State. These were Yuva Mitra (Friends of Youth) and Lokpanchayat (People’s Government).

A document to help demystify science and technology in the local language was circulated to the organisations before the workshop. The STEPS Manifesto was presented in the local language, Marathi, and discussions followed, leading into the field meetings.

Field Meetings

Lok Panchayat conducted seven meetings with Self Help Groups (SHGs) across different classes in villages Kurkundi, Pokhari Baleshwar, Sangamner Khurd, Ghulewadi and Nimaj, focusing on the role of technological innovation in reducing women’s labour. They developed a questionnaire and organised discussions around the schedule of women’s workday.

Yuva Mitra conducted meetings with community women in the four villages of Vadgaon, Adwadi, Bhatwadi and Jamgaon, discussing issues including the neglect of women’s technology needs for reducing work burden, as well as the devaluation of women’s experiential knowledge.

Image: Roundtable in Aadwadi, Maharashtra, India from the Flickr set “Marathmoli Manifesto Roundtables”

Chiplun, Konkan Roundtable

A capacity building workshop was conducted in Chiplun in partnership with Shramik Sahayog. 15 participants, including activists and SHG members participated in the workshop.

Field Meetings

4 meetings were conducted with SHGs in 4 different villages, Veheley, Kalkavney, Tivre and Alore in Chiplun Taluka (Block).

Reports, documents and multimedia:

>> Roundtable Report – Sangamner near Nasik (PDF, 135KB)
>> Roundtable Report – Chiplun, Konkan (PDF, 96KB)
>> Marathmoli Manifesto (PDF, 97KB)
>> Marathmoli Process (PDF, 115KB)
>> Photos - Yuva Mitra village roundtables (Flickr)

Partners

>> Yuva Mitra
>> Lok Panchayat
>> Shramik Sahayog

As well as forming an important part of the broader Manifesto project, the roundtable provided an opportunity for different voices to be heard and ideas to be shared in order to build a repository of information around innovation issues. The STEPS Centre was delighted to help to enable these activities.

The event was opened by Zimbabwe’s minister of Science and Technology Development Professor Henry Dzinotyiweyi. Prof Dzinotyiweyi’s opening address was widely covered in the local TV media, and stressed the importance of moving beyond goals (many of which had been identified in the Lagos Plan of Action, long before the Millennium Development Goals) to action. He saluted Practical Action as the ‘doers’ in the field.

The roundtable divided into groups discussing science and technology issues, water and sanitation, housing technologies, agricultural innovation. The results of these groups were fed back in a plenary session.

In general the STEPS Centre identified a lot of synergies with Practical Action’s five values ‘justice, democracy, empowerment, diversity and sustainability‘, many of which link to passages or ideas contained within the draft New Manifesto. Lawrence Gudza, a researcher at Practical Action Zimbabwe and the organiser of the event, produced a detailed report outlining the discussions and recommendations from the day. It is hoped that these can feed into the ongoing discussions around Zimbabwe’s science and technology strategy into the future.

>> Opening address by Prof Henry Dzinotyiweyi: transcript (PDF, 85KB) / video
>> Report by Practical Action (PDF, 500KB)
>> Video of the Roundtable: Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7

This “Policy Lab” event is one of a series hosted by the Royal Society’s Science and Policy Centre.

Presentations - view or download

Prof Andy Stirling: Science and innovation for development: Where have the politics gone?
Dr Lidia Brito: STI for social justice and sustainable development: a New STEPS Manifesto for Global Science

Related publications

3Ds - Direction, Distribution and Diversity! Pluralising Progress in Innovation, Sustainability and Development (PDF, 700KB) by Stirling, A.

Now all the presentations, and the questions which followed them, are available to watch online at our blip.tv channel. Direct links to the individual videos are below.

Launch - Part 1
Introductions and opening remarks
Melissa Leach and Adrian Ely, STEPS Centre
Allan Gillespie, ESRC
Judi Wakhungu, Chair of STEPS Advisory Committee and Executive Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies, Kenya
Prof Geoff Oldham, one of the authors of the 1970 Sussex Manifesto.

Launch - Part 2
Responses (Chair: Ian Scoones, STEPS Centre)
Hebe Vessuri, IVIC
David Grimshaw, Practical Action
Ehsan Masood, science journalist

Launch - Part 3
Questions and answers

Launch - Part 4
Responses (Chair: Andy Stirling, STEPS Centre)
Laurie Lee, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Zhu Xufeng, Nankai University
Sara Farley, The Global Knowledge Initiative
Other Manifestos: links and complementarities
Kevin Urama, ATPS
Shambu Prasad, Xavier Institute of Management

Launch - Part 5
Report back on afternoon breakout groups (Chair: Melissa Leach)
Plenary discussion and closing remarks

The multimedia version of Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto, is exactly the same text as the printed  version but helps bring the issues raised to life with video, audio and other materials.

The material used is a mixture of video, audio and reports collected during the course of the manifesto project, including clips from some of the 20 roundtables that have been run in association with the project, as well as relevant resources drawn from the work of other people and organisations.

Some of these materials concur with the ideas put forward in the New Manifesto, whilst others put forward different perspectives. Our aim is to illustrate these differences and encourage debate and action around these issues into the future. To that end, we welcome any comments or examples of innovation for development, which you can send to us via email to steps-centre@ids.ac.uk for posting on this site. Or you can comment via our blog.

The multimedia manifesto is available on CD, which may be helpful for people with limited or no internet access.  Those without access to the net will be able to view much of the video, audio and reports presented here as it is loaded on to the CD, while those with an internet connection will also be able to view the ‘additional online resources’.
Efforts have been made to ensure that those using older computer software or hardware will be able to view the materials.

» Read the Multimedia Manifesto online

» Download a copy of Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto (pdf 1MB)

» Request a copy of the multimedia manifesto on CD

» Order a printed copy of the New Manifesto, cost £5.00 from the IDS bookshop

» Online press pack

» Photos from the launch (link to Flickr)

Our interactive map shows all the locations of roundtables around the world. Click on each one for dates and links to video, photos and reports.

For a list in text form, see List of all the Roundtables.