IKD: Innovation, Knowledge and Development
Welcome to IKD
90-second lectures
See IKD research on You Tube! Some recent Oscar winning material from the IKD Management Team:
Economics of Innovation: 90-second lecture presented by Mariana Mazzucato
Politics: 90-second lecture presented by Giles Mohan
The Buyback Boondoggle
Prof William Lazonick’s article in the BusinessWeek magazine on how stock buybacks might damage economic recovery.
Read the full BusinessWeek magazine article
Prof Lazonick is an IKD Visiting Fellow and is part of the FINNOV research team. He is also a professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he directs the Center for Industrial Competitiveness. His book, Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy?: Business Organization and High-Tech Employment in the United States, will be published in September 2009.
The trillion-dollar buyback threat
We also would like to invite you to read Eric Reguly's article on the threat of stock buybacks. It uses data collected by Prof William Lazonick.
Read the full Globe and Mail article
Eric Reguly is a Canadian newspaper columnist. His articles appear almost daily in Report on Business, the financial section of Toronto-based newspaper The Globe and Mail.
The Limits to Governance
A new book edited by Catherine Lyall (University of Edinburgh), Theo Papaioannou (The Open University) and James Smith (University of Edinburgh).
Flyer (PDF document, 112 KB)
For sample pages and to order, please visit the publishers website.
Conference
Financial Institutions and Economic Security
21-22 May 2009
Regent's Park Conference Centre, London, UK
IKD Open Day
Interactive launch of new IKD structure.
See the IKD Open Day page for more information
- Statement from Prof Mark Gottdiener -"This centre is committed to dealing with issues of inequality, uneven development and human rights whenever these dimensions are relevant to research. Accordingly, the IKD staff can make the kind of difference in social issues…"
IKD leaflet
Download the new IKD leaflet (PDF document, 210 KB)
IKD Project meeting
IKD Project meeting Bahia, Brazil 2007, 'Innovation in Pharma and Equity in Health'
Knowledge and innovation drive social and economic development, raising living standards for some but often leaving others behind. In education, health, the environment, enterprise development and other areas technological possibilities engage the hopes and ambitions of policymakers. However, translating the possibilities into concrete gains for target populations in industrially developed or developing countries proves enormously challenging.
The Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Development (IKD) researches the dynamics between technology creation and diffusion, business behavior, government and non-governmental actors. A primary focus is on exploring ways that knowledge and innovation can contribute to inclusive and sustainable patterns of development. IKD's strength comes from its diversity and its ability to cross traditional discipline boundaries. This permits research relevant to that primary focus in the following areas for example: Governance and conflict; education; migration and diaspora; health; medical and agricultural biotechnology; innovation and industry dynamics; capabilities and capacity development; public-private partnerships; regulatory frameworks; social justice, complexity and enterprise development and entrepreneurship.
Please refer to our other pages for more details about our members and the exciting IKD projects that they are engaged in.
Forthcoming Events
Workshops, lectures and conferences
IKD Seminar Series
New Publications
IKD Working Papers
IKD Working Paper 51
US Biopharmaceutical Finance and the Sustainability of the Biotech Boom
William Lazonick and Öner Tulum, July 2009
IKD Working Paper 50
The Impact of China's Exports on Global Manufactures Prices
Xiaolan Fu, Raphael Kaplinsky and Jing Zhang, October 2009
IKD Working Paper 49
The evolution of global manufactures prices, 1988-2006: China's comparative performance
Xiaolan Fu, Dinar Kale and Raphael Kaplinsky, September 2009
IKD Working Paper 48
Venture capital networks in the UK: National or regional?
Stuart Parris, August 2009
IKD Working Paper 47
Common health policy interests between North and South in pharmaceutical policy and global public policies
Meri Koivusalo, May 2009
Recent events
10 June 2009
IKD/CCIG - Asian Mobilities Workshop
The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, Gardiner 1, Room 006
21-22 May 2009
Conference on 'Financial Institutions and Economic Security
Regent's Park Conference Centre, London, UK
7 May 2009: Seminar from 12:00 (Includes lunch)
Justin Rosenberg (Dept. of Management Birkbeck, University of London)
The Philosophical Foundations of Uneven and Combined Development.
CRM 01
15 April 2009: Seminar from 13:00 (Includes lunch)
Birgitte Anderson (Dept. of Management Birkbeck, University of London)
IPRs and Governance of Innovation of Market structure: a model.
Michael Young Presentation Area
6-7 April 2009
Technology for Health Systems Strengthening (THeSyS)
Electronic Discussion and Workshop
Rooms 12 & 13, Ground Floor, Chambers Building, Open University, Milton Keynes
