Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization

2006 - 2009

Edited by Philip Auerswald and Iqbal Quadir

from MIT Press
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Volume 2, issue 4, 2007

Address at Harvard: Commencement, July 7, 2007 pp. 3-9

Bill Gates

Solutions Within Reach pp. 10-15

Lawrence H. Summers

The Gates Plan pp. 16-18

William Foege

Empathetic Capitalism pp. 19-25

Laurie Garrett

The New Gates in Harvard Yard: A Students' Response to the Philanthropist's Call to Action pp. 26-34

Matthew Basilico and Connie Chen

Making Sight Affordable (Innovations Case Narrative: The Aravind Eye Care System) pp. 35-49

V. Kasturi Rangan and R. D. Thulasiraj

Aravind: Partner and Social Science Innovator (Innovations Case Discussion: Aravind Eye Care System) pp. 50-52

Larry Brilliant and Girija Brilliant

The Cataract Blindness Challenge Innovations Case Discussion: Aravind Eye Care System) pp. 53-57

Geoffrey Tabin

Seeking a Cure for Inequity in Access to Medicines (Innovations Case Narrative: The Institute for OneWorld Health) pp. 59-71

Victoria Hale

Solutions and Challenges to Curing Global Health Inequality (Innovations Case Discussion: The Institute for OneWorld Health) pp. 72-80

Wesley Yin

A New Solution Suggesting the Need for a New Equation (Innovations Case Discussion: The Institute for OneWorld Health) pp. 81-86

Piera Morlacchi

Building Capacity for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment: Health Systems Strengthening in Lesotho pp. 87-106

Salmaan Keshavjee, Kwonjune Seung, Hind Satti, Jennifer Furin, Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim and Mercedes Becerra

The Biofuels Conundrum: Their Potential for Good or Ill is Enormous; Getting the Rules Right is Critical pp. 107-115

Timothy E. Wirth

Beyond Bioethics: A Proposal for Modernizing the Regulation of Human Biotechnologies pp. 117-127

Franco Furger and Francis Fukuyama

Accelerating Health Product Innovation in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 129-149

Hassan Masum, Abdallah S. Daar, Sara Al-Bader, Ronak Shah and Peter A. Singer

Volume 2, issue 3, 2007

Leadership and Innovation in a Networked World pp. 3-13

Diego Rodriguez and Doug Solomon

Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Address Global Climate Change pp. 15-26

Thomas W. Malone and Mark Klein

Collapsing Geography (Second Life, Innovation, and the Future of National Power) pp. 27-54

Cory Ondrejka

A Silicon Silicon Valley? (Virtual Innovation and Virtual Geography) pp. 55-61

Philip Evans

Contriving Constraints (The Gameness of Second Life and the Persistence of Scarcity) pp. 62-67

Thomas M. Malaby

The Values and Limits of Substitutional Sovereignty pp. 68-72

Paul R. Verkuil

The Policy Analysis Market (A Thwarted Experiment in the Use of Prediction Markets for Public Policy) pp. 73-88

Robin Hanson

The Politics of Prediction pp. 89-96

Michael Abramowicz

The Principles of Distributed Innovation pp. 97-112

Karim R. Lakhani and Jill A. Panetta

Innovation Without Borders pp. 113-124

Bhaskar Chakravorti

Open Sourcing Social Solutions (Building Communities of Change) pp. 125-136

Charlie Brown

Science Commons: Material Transfer Agreement Project pp. 137-143

Thinh Nguyen

Volume 2, issue 1-2, 2007

Beyond Lending: How Microfinance Creates New Forms of Capital to Fight Poverty pp. 3-17

Imran Matin

Meeting Urgent Needs with Patient Capital pp. 19-30

Jacqueline Novogratz

Kiva and the Birth of Person-to-Person Microfinance pp. 31-56

Matt Flannery

Kiva as a Test of Our "Societal Creativity" Innovations Case Discussion: Kiva.org pp. 57-62

Robert D. Austin

M-PESA: Mobile Money for the "Unbanked" Turning Cellphones into 24-Hour Tellers in Kenya pp. 63-81

Nick Hughes and Susie Lonie

From Microfinance to m-Finance Innovations Case Discussion: M-PESA pp. 82-90

Mudit Kapoor, Jonathan Morduch and Shamika Ravi

Microfinance Matures: Opportunities, Risks, and Obstacles for an Emerging Global Industry pp. 91-114

Elisabeth Rhyne and María Otero

Commercial Returns at the Base of the Pyramid pp. 115-146

Michael Chu

The Next 4 Billion pp. 147-158

Allen L. Hammond, William J. Kramer, Robert S. Katz, Julia T. Tran and Courtland Walker

The Architecture of Audacity: Assessing the Impact of the Microcredit Summit Campaign pp. 159-180

Susan Davis and Vinod Khosla

Regulatory Innovation in Microfinance: The MACS Act in Andhra Pradesh pp. 181-201

Guy Stuart

Is Securitization Right for Microfinance? pp. 202-213

Sharon Stieber

Volume 1, issue 4, 2006

Social Innovators with a Business Case: Facing 21st Century Challenges One Market at a Time pp. 7-11

Klaus Schwab and Pamela Hartigan

Science as Social Enterprise: The CAMBIA BiOS Initiative pp. 13-44

Richard Jefferson

Open Source in Biotechnology: Open Questions Innovations Case Discussion: CAMBIA-BiOS pp. 45-57

Sara Boettiger and Brian Davern Wright

Commons-Based Agricultural Innovation Innovations Case Discussion: CAMBIA-BiOS pp. 58-65

Yochai Benkler

Winning Citizen Trust: The Siting of a Nuclear Waste Facility in Eurajoki, Finland pp. 67-82

Juhani Vira

Is It Possible To Solve The Nuclear Waste Problem? Innovations Case Discussion: Siting of Eurajoki Nuclear Waste Facility pp. 83-92

Allison Macfarlane

Enabling Innovation: Technology- and System-Level Approaches that Capitalize on Complexity pp. 93-110

Boru Douthwaite

Will China Become a Science and Technology Superpower by 2020? An Assessment based on a National Innovation System Framework pp. 111-126

Xue Lan and Nancy Forbes

Reforming U.S. Patent Policy: Getting the Incentives Right pp. 127-153

Keith E. Maskus

Volume 1, issue 3, 2006

Global Climate and Health: Predicting Infectious Disease Outbreaks pp. 19-23

Rita R. Colwell

Making Sight Affordable (Part I): Aurolab Pioneers Production of Low-Cost Technology for Cataract Surgery pp. 25-41

Mahad Ibrahim, Aman Bhandari, Jaspal S. Sandhu and P. Balakrishnan

Making Healthcare Affordable for All: A Proposed Model for Transferring Technology Innovations Case Discussion: Aurolab pp. 42-47

V. Kasturi Rangan

From Sink to Source: The Honey Bee Network Documents Indigenous Knowledge and Innovations in India pp. 49-66

Anil K. Gupta

Promoting Local Innovation as a Development Strategy: Innovations Case Discussion: The Honey Bee Network pp. 67-77

Graham Dutfield

China's Innovation Challenge and the Remaking of the Chinese Academy of Sciences pp. 78-97

Richard P. Suttmeier, Cong Cao and Denis Fred Simon

Disaster via Airmail: The Launching of a Global Reaction Capacity After the 2001 Anthrax Attacks pp. 99-117

Patrick Lagadec, Erwann Michel-Kerjan and Ryan N. Ellis

Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation: Harnessing the Benefits of Openness pp. 119-176

Elliot Maxwell

Volume 1, issue 2, 2006

The Energy Innovation Imperative: Addressing Oil Dependence, Climate Change, and Other 21-super-st Century Energy Challenges pp. 3-23

John P. Holdren

Taking Animal Trafficking Out of the Shadows: RENCTAS Uses the Internet to Combat a Multi-Billion Dollar Trade pp. 25-35

Dener Giovanni

Tools for Compliance in a Networked World: Innovations Case Discussion: RENCTAS pp. 36-43

Jerry Mechling

Conservation via Satellite: Leveraging Remote Sensing to Monitor the Pingree Easement pp. 44-67

James N. Levitt

When the Land Tells a Story: Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Landscape Monitoring and Humanitarian Relief: Innovations Case Discussion: Pingree Easement pp. 68-79

Randall B. Kemp and Sanjeev Khagram

Genome and Nation: Iceland's Health Sector Database and its Legacy pp. 80-105

David E. Winickoff

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Innovations For Primary Health Care in Developing Countries pp. 106-122

Frank Tanser

The Next Innovation Revolution: Laying the Groundwork for the United States pp. 123-144

James Turner

The Process of Social Innovation pp. 145-162

Geoff Mulgan

Volume 1, issue 1, 2006

Everyone a Changemaker: Social Entrepreneurship's Ultimate Goal pp. 80-96

William Drayton

Cooperation to Secure Nuclear Stockpiles: A Case of Constrained Innovation pp. 115-137

Matthew Bunn