Sociologists and engineers take different approaches to stimulating innovation. Inspired by the Eu-SPRI winter school organised by the Science Policy…
Category: Innovation
Green investment: Put your money where the carbon isn’t
What do a company’s carbon emissions tell you about its long term prospects? Grantham Institute Director of Innovation Prof Richard…
Technology transfer: how the UNFCCC helps put the right technologies into the right hands
How do you ensure that the developing world has access to the key technologies needed to limit greenhouse emissions and…
Five ways to reinvent energy
On 25 November the Grantham Institute’s Moritz Köhme and Dr Jeff Hardy attended the Reinventing Energy Summit hosted by New…
Taking the waste out of waste wood
Grantham PhD student Florence Gschwend recently won an impressive £10,000 to put into a new business that harnesses cutting edge…
Why clean tech innovation and selfish action go hand in hand
SSCP DTP student Oliver Schmidt argues that technological innovation is key to empowering individuals to act on climate change. Some…
How do we make renewable electricity cheap enough to leave coal in the ground?
Ajay Gambhir discusses the role of public funding on energy technology innovation The Global Apollo Programme proposal aims to get renewable electricity so…
World leaders are not the only champions for low-carbon living
Grantham Institute co-director Professor Martin Siegert on the inspiring role for innovation and entrepreneurship, and a new public exhibition of…