[Urbanstudy] Talk by Smita Srinivas at Alternative Law Forum (ALF) on 22nd July

[Subasri Krishnan]

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Dear All


You are invited to a public talk by Smita Srinivas on Friday, July 22nd
titled “Models of Innovation: Knowledge problems and problematic context”
where she will discuss sector-specific urban technological innovations with
their historical, political and regulatory context. The materials she is
using will draw from India and several other ‘developing’ countries, and the
talk will focus on how knowledge and innovation have been historically
classified, their influences on economic models, the challenges of
regulation, and ways we study knowing, doing, and borrowing.”


Where: Alternative Law Forum, 122/4 Infantry Road (opposite Infantry Wedding
Hall)

When: 6 pm to 7:30 pm on Friday, 22 July

About the speaker: Smita Srinivas is Director of the Technological Change
Lab (TCLab) at Columbia University in New York and Assistant Professor in
the Urban Planning program. She is on the Executive Committee of the South
Asia Institute (SAI) at Columbia. Her research and policy areas are economic
development and industrial plans, with a more specific interest in
technological innovation, the cognitive and institutional context for
knowledge, and employment and welfare in ‘late’ industrializing economies.
Dr. Srinivas is currently working on a study of models of innovation and
knowledge in economic development. She is trained in economics and economic
development planning, and has over 15 years of senior advisory or consulting
positions with diverse organizations. She has advised or consulted with the
UN and other international agencies, and with grass-roots and research
organizations. The work of TCLab with several Visiting Scholars and students
looks at comparative international contexts for innovation and industrial
change and focuses on technology in sectors such as health, water, waste,
construction, and crafts in diverse settings from India and Brazil to
Finland. This work requires engagements with technology firms, unions, NGOs,
and other organizations. Dr. Srinivas is the author of Market Menagerie:
Health and Development in Late Industrial States (Stanford University Press,
forthcoming) on the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors, and co-author of
Learning from Experience: a gendered approach to social protection for the
informal economy (Geneva: ILO).


Entrance is Free: All are welcome




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Alternative Law Forum
122/4 Infantry Road
Opposite Infantry Wedding House
Bangalore 560001
Phone 22868757/22865757

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Subasri Krishnan
III Floor, 64 Bhagwan Nagar
New Delhi - 110014
email: subasrik at gmail.com
ph: +91-99103-95629
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