Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto

Published by the STEPS Centre, June 2010

Forty years after the 1970 publication of The Sussex Manifesto: Science and Technology to Developing Countries during the Second Development Decade, this new manifesto seeks to bring cutting-edge ideas and some Southern perspectives to current policy. 

Written in collaboration with one of the original authors, Professor Geoff Oldham, the New Manifesto recommends new ways of linking science and innovation to development for a more sustainable, equitable and resilient future.

It presents a series of recommendations designed to achieve the author's vision of a "world where science and technology work more directly for social justice, poverty alleviation and the environment”.

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The STEPS Centre (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) is an interdisciplinary global research and policy engagement hub that unites development studies with science and technology studies.