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Follow UsCentres of Excellence? Questions of Capacity for Innovation, Sustainability, Development
STEPS Working paper 23By Melissa Leach and Linda Waldman
Published 2009
ISBN: 978 1 85864 780 0
This paper explores what ‘mainstream’ Centres of Excellence might mean for developing countries and poor people.
It examines how development is constructed as economic growth with industry and enterprise – complemented by centres of scientific excellence and technological innovation – as its key engine. It demonstrates that, in relation to science and centres of excellence, the discourse of networking and partnerships assumes that all interested parties evaluate progress, development and excellence similarly.
Published as part of a series by the STEPS Centre (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability).
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